I think this trial has been telling in what they have: witness statements, emails and writing that shows CB is a paedo and pervert, and coincidental suspect behaviours - Jag, deleting emails, phone call etc.
The judge/court it is reported are considering whether the evidence is admissible in the cases on trial at the moment,to do so they must have thought the defence must have produced a reasonable argument rather than technicalities not least the legality of the factory searches.
Did I say anything about opportunistic?
Given the police officer who found the material admitted on the stand to making up a bogus reason to search the property, I’d say the argument is reasonable.
Insofar as your recognition of CB's defence team tactics of including the MM investigation and witnesses in this one for the five trials presently underway, the question has to be asked "WHY" do that?
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As is often the case, it’s quite difficult to understand your point or the relevance of the OP citation.Insofar as your recognition of CB's defence team tactics of including the MM investigation and witnesses in this one for the five trials presently underway, the question has to be asked "WHY" do that?
These five cases presently undergoing trial are each and every one stand alone cases.
Not one of which has anything even remotely at all to do with the MM case or indeed any other case which may have occurred in the length and breadth of the Algarve during CB's sojourn there.
Evidence has been presented relative to these five cases and no others; so why go off on a tangent to force any other into the mix. One can only surmise the furore if the prosecution were to similarly attempt to use that ploy.
For example there is the allegation made by an accomplice of a different type of criminality out with the scope of this five offence trial exactly as the MM case is.
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From that day R grew increasingly suspicious of CB, particularly after he was accused of raping a pensioner, 72, to which he was found guilty and given a seven-year sentence in 2020.
Police had already found child *advertiser censored* on a camera at his kiosk and a mutual friend was investigated for child *advertiser censored*, AFTER CB had been surfing on his laptop.
“I realised he had an even darker soul than I could have imagined,
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He continued: “I didn’t give up however and I drove him into a corner asking him about the child *advertiser censored* and why he needed three computers at his kiosk.
“Eventually he snapped, became really aggressive and then suddenly he left and climbed over my garden fence without a word and ran away. …and that was that, our friendship was over.”
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“When I analyse my friendship with him there’s nothing good I can take away, but one thing is also clear: CB wasn’t born a monster, he was made that way, I’m sure of that!”
EXCLUSIVE: 'Wanted accomplice' and friend of Christian Brueckner speaks out: "He's a monster and I'm sure he knows what happened to Madeleine McCann" - Olive Press News Spain
By Rainer Burkard and Jon Clarke in Braunschweig A CLOSE friend of Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner sought by police as a witness in the case
Evidence is evidence tbh. The prosecution put it in wanting it to be allowed obviously..that evidence would be related to both potential trials as it concerns him
Are you following the same case as everyone else?
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Of course the presumption must be that the judge knows the law. Just as the presumption can be made that in the absence of expert commentary from someone conversant with German law (which is singularly missing from the understanding of this case) the tendency to err is ever present.
Evidence is only evidence when it pertains to the offence or in this instance the five offences under trial.
BIB - they are all part of the same investigation.Your synopsis appears to indicate a rather different view of crime and punishment from the norm.
As is usual with all law enforcement agencies there are many different investigations in progress. Each and every individual case progresses to it's conclusion which starts with evidence gathering.
Let us look at the five cases currently being tried in the Braunschweig court with all that links them being the alleged perpetrator
Although the rapes of HB and DM were similar and happened within the same time scale neither those nor that of the two unknown women were used as part and parcel of the same case.
- CB was charged with raping an unknown approximately 70-80-year-old woman in her bedroom in Portugal.
- CB was also charged with raping an "unknown German-speaking girl aged at least 14 years" who was "tied naked to a wooden pole in the living room" in the house where CB lived in Praia da Luz, Portugal, beat her with a whip and forced her to perform oral sex
- CB was charged with attacking HB in her apartment in Portugal's Praia da Rocha in 2004.
According to investigators, the perpetrator in that attack acted very similarly to the man who attacked and raped a 72-year-old woman known as DM. in her home in nearby Praia da Luz in 2005.
They are three separate offences all of which will stand as DM's did (or fall) depending on the evidence.
"The clues that led to the new charges against CB came largely from the investigation into the MM case."
- CB was charged that on April 7, 2007, he allegedly grabbed a 10-year-old girl from Germany as she played on a Portuguese beach.
- CB was charged that on June 11, 2017, he exposed himself and masturbated in front of children at a playground in Portugal. The girl ran to her father, and CB was arrested.
Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner charged with five new counts of rape and sexual abuse
German prosecutors still haven't charged Christian Brueckner in the British toddler's abduction, but the investigation is helping them solve other crimes.
Nothing connects these five cases to the MM case apart from the fact that the same suspect is in the frame.
They are each a stand alone case each with it's own unique evidence and certainly not a case of 'one size fits all. Each charge will be tried on its merits. As these five will be. Just as the MM case will be as or when charges are laid.
There isn't any reference there at all to the substance of these five trials nor to CB's alleged role in them.
Potentially some of the evidence may be in both cases or if the prosecution get their own way
That is highly unlikely. I can think of absolutely no "shared" evidence regarding any of the alleged cases presently being tried with the exception that the police informant of the rapes of the two unidentified women and the naming of MM's murderer was the same source.
It has been raised in court that BKA has only one investigation into CB.
