Judge shoots himself in court 'after being pressured to give guilty verdicts despite lack of evidenc

[rpannier]

A judge shot himself in the chest in a court in Thailand after he was reportedly pressured to find several defendants guilty despite the lack of evidence against them.

Khanakorn Pianchana made the apparent suicide attempt after acquitting five people of murder and firearms charges in his courtroom in the southern province of Yala on Friday.

Mr Khanakorn was rushed to hospital for surgery but his injuries were not life-threatening, the Bangkok Post reported.

A statement attributed to him that circulated online claimed his superiors had tried to force him to change the verdicts to guilty.

The verdicts could have condemned three of the men to death and sent two to prison. The evidence did not support a guilty verdict, the statement said.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/thailand-judge-shoots-self-court-guilty-verdicts-khanakorn-pianchana-yala-a9143966.html

[malaise]

1. Across the globe our institutions have been corrupted

The time has come for a global clean up and many people need to be in prison.

[Scarsdale]

4. At the moment, the USA

is the shining example of the worst of the worst. Wanna get rich? Run for political office, lie your ass off, run as an (r) and you will be protected by the rest of the crooks. Look at tRump. No experience, no intelligence, no good qualities whatsoever, yet the gop are all licking his shoes. I am truly disgusted that people can be so gullible. A cheap con artist has the entire gop under his tiny orange thumb.

[malaise]

5. It is hard to comprehend

+1,000

[oasis]

2. Hopefully the judge's desparate act will spark an appeal process. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Conscientious, moral and ethical judge who would rather self-harm,

than follow orders that would harm others.

Wow.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. Indeed.

Remarkable passion for ethics.

[frogmarch]

7. Wow!

He took his job seriously! I hope those cases will be reviewed. I hope too that the judge will be okay, both physically and mentally.

[Revanchist]

9. I remember his story mostly due the song about the incident by Filter

https://m.

[yellowcanine]

8. I would think that would trigger a misstrial.