Nikki Catsouras Case

Should this family win their legal battle, or is this truly a free speech issue? If this had been one of your family members- how would you feel? Most news agencies would not show these photos- should they be allowed on the internet- or does the internet need to remain unfettered?

The Catsouras family should win their legal battle, but it would be next to impossible to truly get what they are looking for because unhumane photos being posted on the internet is something that will continue to exist. The dead, practilly decapitated body of Nikki Carsouras should have never been let into the public eye. If the two CHP officers, Thomas O'Donnell, 39, and Aaron Reich, 30, wanted to send emails to their relatives to encourage driving safety they could have easily sent them the pictures of the mangled porsche, with the hub cap being the only recongnized car part, and an overview of what happened, and it would have engraved a huge effect if not the same as the pictures of the teenager's body.

If the coroner would not even allow Nikki's parents to identify her body because of how distorted and ruined her body was, then why is it okay for those police officers to send pictures to anyone. The parents should be the only people who have a right to view their daughter's remains, no one else in the universe should have that right except for the people who have to do it as part of their job. As a part of their job, crime scene photographs of a deceased body should be kept confidential.

What happened to the Catsouras family, is not a free speech issue it is clearly harassment. If someone can be sued for something as simple as calling someone too many times or accidently brushing someone as they walk by in a crowded area, sending pictures of a girl with her head hanging out the window barely attached to her neck to her own father with obscene messages attached should be considered harrassment. Yes the Bill of Rights provide freedom of the press and freedom of speech, but when it is harming someone and costing them thousands of dollars to avoid, that is not protected by the constitution.

If this unfortunate circumstance had happened to one of my family members, I would feel obligated to leave the country. I would not be able to live every day of my life in fear of seeing and reliving the horrific accident that most people spend every day of their life trying to forget. It is unfair that this family is haunted every day of their lives of their beloved daughter's and sister's death.

Yes, suing has gotton out of control these days. People try to sue everyone for everything, including Mc Donalds for making you fat...wow, what has this country came to? Suing will not bring their daughter back, no matter what they do. But maybe for them it feels that if they sue they are preventing this from happening to other families. No maybe, they should not sue the whole Polie Department but they should definitely sue the people who leaked the photos, and if it was possible the people who sent the disgusting emails. They need to win something to prove that they can do something about this, to prove they still have control over their lives. I believe this is more of a mental law suit than anything.

Any photo of a deceased person (as deceased) should be deleted from the internet, there should be a law forbidding anyone to put a picture of the deceased online. No one should have the right to look at anyones dead body, the only reason humans do it is becuase of curiosity. How would you feel if your family member's decapitated head and mangled body was posted on the internet for everyone, all your friends, relatives, clients, employees, or even bosses to view. Clients like to research you and so do employers they can check your myspace or google you, but everytime they do this they will get thousands of sites showing their daughter or sister's accident. This unfortunate event should never happen to any family again. With all the new technologies we should know how to prevent this.