The defendants claim they are innocent of the robbery charges against them. They explain that while shopping at Dior, they were forced at gunpoint by two men to drive their getaway car. However, the defendants crashed the car into a fountain to stop the robbers. When police arrived, the robbers had fled but left the stolen goods with the defendants. The police wrongly accused and arrested the defendants without properly investigating. As strangers who met on the plane, the defendants may have provided inconsistent details about each other during questioning due to lack of knowledge and being traumatized by the event. They ask the judge and jury for understanding and a wise judgment.
The defendants claim they are innocent of the robbery charges against them. They explain that while shopping at Dior, they were forced at gunpoint by two men to drive their getaway car. However, the defendants crashed the car into a fountain to stop the robbers. When police arrived, the robbers had fled but left the stolen goods with the defendants. The police wrongly accused and arrested the defendants without properly investigating. As strangers who met on the plane, the defendants may have provided inconsistent details about each other during questioning due to lack of knowledge and being traumatized by the event. They ask the judge and jury for understanding and a wise judgment.
The defendants claim they are innocent of the robbery charges against them. They explain that while shopping at Dior, they were forced at gunpoint by two men to drive their getaway car. However, the defendants crashed the car into a fountain to stop the robbers. When police arrived, the robbers had fled but left the stolen goods with the defendants. The police wrongly accused and arrested the defendants without properly investigating. As strangers who met on the plane, the defendants may have provided inconsistent details about each other during questioning due to lack of knowledge and being traumatized by the event. They ask the judge and jury for understanding and a wise judgment.
Honorable judge and jury, we claim that we are innocent.
We have done nothing we are ashamed of.
We tried to help capture the true culprits behind the robbery but the police had failed to comprehend our motives and has foolishly convicted us for a crime we didn't do.
We are just American tourists who met coincidentally on the airplane heading to Paris from New Jersey and decided to spend our vacation together. We went shopping at Dior and when we were about to get into our car, two french men pointed guns at us and ordered us to drive. However, since we didn't want these criminals to get away with their crime, we crashed into a fountain. In the midst of this chaos, the robbers ran away before the police arrived and they left the objects they have stolen, the Dior collection, with us. The police decided hastily that we were the robbers without thinking properly just by looking at the scene of the crime and not listening to our story.
Since we didnt know each other before we rode the airplane together, we had wrong knowledge about each other and may have answered the questions the police has asked about each other incorrectly. Therefore, we believe that the police should not be able to use those questions and our answers against us. We also were traumatized by the incident so we may not remember correctly and may have contradicted ourselves so we hope for your understanding.
We thank you for your attention and ask for your wise judgement.
French Version - Jiwon Lee Honorable juge et jury, nous affirmons que nous sommes innocents.
Nous n'avons rien, nous avons honte de faire.
Nous avons essay d'aider capturer les vrais coupables derrire le cambriolage mais la police n'avait pas russi comprendre nos motivations et a btement nous condamns pour un crime que nous n'avons pas fait.
Nous sommes quelques touristes amricains qui se sont rencontrs par hasard sur le titre Paris du New Jersey avion et ont dcid de passer nos vacances ensemble. Nous sommes alls faire du shopping chez Dior et quand nous tions sur le point d'entrer dans notre voiture, deux hommes franais ont point leurs armes sur nous et nous a ordonn de conduire. Cependant, puisque nous ne voulions pas que ces criminels s'en tirer avec leur crime, nous nous sommes crass dans une fontaine. Au milieu de ce chaos, les voleurs se sont enfuis avant l'arrive des policiers et ils ont laiss les objets qu'ils ont vols, la collection Dior, avec nous. La police a dcid la hte que nous tions les voleurs sans penser correctement juste en regardant la scne du crime et ne pas couter notre histoire.
Comme nous ne savions pas avant nous avons roul l'avion ensemble, nous avons eu tort connaissance les uns des autres et peuvent avoir rpondu aux questions de la police a pos des questions sur l'autre de manire incorrecte. Par consquent, nous croyons que la police ne devrait pas tre en mesure d'utiliser ces questions et nos rponses contre nous. Nous avons galement t traumatis par l'incident afin que nous puissions ne me souviens pas correctement et peut avoir nous-mmes contredit donc nous esprons votre comprhension.
Nous vous remercions de votre attention et vous demandons votre jugement sage.