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Boris Johnson says American diplomat's wife should face charges in fatal car accident (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2019 OP
Well BJ I think you are gong to have to gin up some Biden dirt to get her back. Thomas Hurt Oct 2019 #1
He's right you know. LittleGirl Oct 2019 #2
Yes. kag Oct 2019 #6
If that had happened to me LittleGirl Oct 2019 #7
She was on the wrong side of the road. It seems she forgot she wasn't in South Carolina any more. Marcuse Oct 2019 #9
yep and that's why he's gone, poor kid. eom LittleGirl Oct 2019 #12
We would ask for a waiver in the reverse situation Midnightwalk Oct 2019 #3
I don't think diplomatic immunity should extend to ordinary aspects of life bucolic_frolic Oct 2019 #4
Like this? nycbos Oct 2019 #5
I was thinking of this one lapfog_1 Oct 2019 #8
The purpose for giving the immunity on ordinary aspects is to prevent rpannier Oct 2019 #11
Sorry Bori, your twin says ameriKans are above the law like him yaesu Oct 2019 #10

LittleGirl

(8,287 posts)
2. He's right you know.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 03:48 PM
Oct 2019

She needs to accept responsibility for her deadly driving.
If she was the Queen, I’d say the same.
Nobody can walk away when a life is taken. I don’t care who you are.
It may have been an awful accident but it could have been negligence.
That’s why an investigation needs to be held. Back in the UK.

kag

(4,079 posts)
6. Yes.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 05:02 PM
Oct 2019

My husband I agreed on this when the story broke. Diplomatic immunity should not extend to laws that are the same in both countries. If she had done this in the U.S. she would be prosecuted to the fullest extent. She needs to go back.

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
3. We would ask for a waiver in the reverse situation
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 03:55 PM
Oct 2019

From the state department

[link:https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2018-DipConImm_v5_Web.pdf|]

U.S. Department
of State requests waivers of immunity in every case where the prosecutor advises that, but for the immunity, charges would be pursued. In serious cases, if a waiver is refused, the offender will be expelled from the United States and
the U.S. Department of State will request that
a warrant be issued and appropriate entries to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database be made by the responsible jurisdiction.


In my opinion there is no justification for us not waiving immunity in this case.

But we’ll see. I wouldn’t expect a lightning fast resolution in normal times.

bucolic_frolic

(43,172 posts)
4. I don't think diplomatic immunity should extend to ordinary aspects of life
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 04:44 PM
Oct 2019

but then I don't know a lot about it. Parking tickets, crimes, cases like this, private scuffles, debts. These are things common folk can get into. No get out of jail free cards.

rpannier

(24,329 posts)
11. The purpose for giving the immunity on ordinary aspects is to prevent
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 07:15 PM
Oct 2019

countries from making up crimes based on ordinary aspects of life
There have always been concerns that some governments would arrest and hold diplomatic personnel on trumped charges as part of a tit-for-tat. We arrest one of theirs for reckless driving and they make up a similar charge to hold one of ours

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