Japanese Academic Locked Up In Australia

[kurohinge1]

Sorry lads, couldn't find any photos of the "incident":

Southern Cross University law lecturer jailed

A JAPANESE law lecturer who bared her bottom to a judge will apply for bail pending an appeal against her recent convictions for threatening to kill court officials.

Megumi Ogawa, 41, was sentenced in March to six months' jail after a Brisbane District Court jury found her guilty of two counts each of using a carriage service to harass and using a carriage service to threaten to kill Australian Federal Court officials in 2006.

During the trial, the court was told Ogawa, who is a lecturer at Lismore's Southern Cross University, sent 83 emails and made 176 phone calls to Federal Court staff.

During some of those contacts, she made threats to kill registry staff.

Ogawa regularly had to be removed from the trial for incessant screaming, making disparaging comments about the justice system and wrestling with corrective services officers.

She also flashed her bottom on one occasion when being dragged into court.

At the conclusion of the trial, Judge Stuart Durward charged Ogawa with contempt for her "disgusting behaviour" during the proceedings and sentenced her to four months' jail for that offence.

In April, Ogawa indicated she would appeal against her convictions and sentences for the four Commonwealth offences and the charge of contempt.

On Tuesday, she filed an application in the Brisbane Supreme Court registry indicating she would be seeking bail pending this appeal.

The bail application will be heard later this month.

Tickets to see her next appearance go on sale Monday.

Parental guidance recommended.

[Bucky]

[BigInJapan]

Megumi Ogawa is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University. She holds the degrees of BA (Law) and MA (International and Business Law) from universities in her native Japan and a PhD (Law) from the University of Queensland.

Hmm, for someone with a BA, MA, and PhD you'd think she would have the sense not to go nuts in court.

She will teach International Business Law, Intellectual Property Law and the Information Technology and the Law in 2009.

After a six month hiatus in the big house perhaps.

And the plot thickens, seems it's not her first brush with the law, or imprisonment.
Japanese academic claims legal action against university led to Villawood detention

[Iraira]

Hmm, for someone with a BA, MA, and PhD you'd think she would have the sense not to go nuts in court.

The higher the degree the higher the chance for psychotic behavior. A touch of bipolar disorder really helps around advancement to candidacy exam time.

[kurohinge1]

Careful, she may be headed back your way !

Japanese bottom-barer to face Brisbane's Supreme Court

. . . Japanese national Megumi Ogawa, 41, was today granted conditional bail four months into a 10-month prison term term after a jury found her guilty of using the internet to harass and threaten to kill Australian Federal Court (AFC) officials in 2006.

. . . Justice Lyons ordered Ogawa be released on condition a $10,000 surety was posted and that she receive psychiatric treatment upon her return to Lismore.

. . . In late March The Courier-Mail revealed Ogawa flashed her buttocks to a Brisbane District Court jury, judge Stuart Durward, SC, and one journalist in a bid to avoid being tried for threatening to kill AFC staff.

Ogawa screamed uncontrollably as a judge Durward tried to tell her he had convicted her on a charge of contempt for her "disgraceful" behaviour through the two week duration of her trial.

. . . Ogawa faces possible deportation to Japan upon completion of her prison term. . . . more

Her behaviour [in Court] included screaming loudly and claiming she was about to soil herself. At least she's ready to fly JAL

[Greji]

[quote="kurohinge1"]Careful, she may be headed back your way !
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She really don't want to flash the bottom in front of Iraira, or me......

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Thank God this sort of thing doesn't happen in Japan....
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/lockedup-and-angry-the-lot-of-a-foreign-student-20090730-e2wz.html?page=-1

[American Oyaji]

Wow, I'd call that a fair and balanced representation of her plight. Everything I've read before has had a rather critical slant. This one presents the issue in a different light and I hold a bit of sympathy for her whereas before I wasn't sure what to think.

[hundefar]

I wish more Japanese academics would bare their behinds when giving lectures. It would make a nice change from the nihonjinron.

[kusai Jijii]

I suspect it boils down to something like this...

Japanese doctoral students are, in affect, awarded PhDs from their supervisors, who, decide when they will allow their students to submit their theses (internally). There is an underlying idea in Japanese universities that it is the sensei's responsibility to make sure that students pass, and in instances where this does not happen, the finger first pointed is in the dirrection of the sensei.

On the other hand, Australian students are expected to crank out their theses largely by themselves, with minimal input from supervisors, and to get their theses to a standard good enough for external examination. If they aint up to par, they dont pass.

The long and the short of it, this chick couldn't cut it.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

The long and the short of it, this chick couldn't cut it.

While you're right about the respective academic assessments, you're misunderstanding...she eventually got her PhD, so I think there's something else involved in the case.
I get the feeling that she simply forgot to renew/change her visa, got nabbed for overstaying and her real problems started from there.
I think the Aussies are bleeding hearts. They should do to her what Dr. Ogawa's own Japanese do with visa overstayers -- demonize, detain and deport. As someone with a PhD in law (albeit in a field totally unrelated to visa issues), she should have known better about her residency qualifications.
The only sympathy I have for her is that she's stark, raving mad and needs pyschological help. She should be allowed to stay in Australia to get that because there's not a hope in hell she'll get the treatment she needs in this country.

[kusai Jijii]

Fair Call 'Screwed Down'.

In any case, she's an idiot to be representing herself.

It should also be pointed out that in Japan, the majority of professors teaching law have not actually practiced law - that is to say, they hold graduate degrees in law, but have not passed the national bar exam, and have never actually worked as lawyers, let alone stood in a courtroom running a defence.

[Taro Toporific]

....The only sympathy I have for her is that she's stark, raving mad and needs psychological help....

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Bum flashing lecturer appeals conviction
brisbanetimes.comSeptember 24, 2009 - 3:44PM
A Japanese law lecturer who flashed her bottom at a judge should have her contempt of court conviction quashed because she was mentally disturbed, her lawyer says.
Brisbane District Court Judge Stuart Durward sentenced Megumi Ogawa, 41, to four months' jail for her "disgusting behaviour" during her trial....
....Ogawa's lawyer Angelo Vasta asked for the contempt convictions to be set aside...
...Mr Vasta said there was an abundance of evidence indicating Ogawa was "mentally disturbed", including psychiatric assessments....more....
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.....Ogawa came to Australia nine years ago. She has spent 6½]--via Locked-up and angry: the lot of a foreign student
smh.com 2009/07/30[/align]

[Greji]

A Japanese law lecturer who flashed her bottom at a judge should have her contempt of court conviction quashed because she was mentally disturbed, her lawyer says.

That comes from shagging an overly excessive amount of Aussies. Kuro! I told you to stay away from her. Now look what you've created, a moon pie.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Bum-flashing loopy law professor stays behind bars.

[Takechanpoo]

Bum-flashing loopy law professor stays behind bars.

Apparently this woman is not Japanese because of her eyes and jaw.
Damn Aussie authority should inspect her family tree

[yabanjin]

sending death threats and showing the world her chocolate starfish...just not a good look.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

sending death threats and showing the world her chocolate starfish...just not a good look.

She fears that if she is deported she will not be able to get an academic job in Japan or travel to conferences..

But it should be great for her career prospects back home...

[Bucky]

Apparently her case just goes on, and on, and on . . . .

A JAPANESE law lecturer jailed for contempt, which included flashing her buttocks in court during her trial for making threats to Federal Court officials, has been refused leave to appeal to the High Court.

The Queensland Court of Appeal had previously dismissed her appeal against conviction.

In one of the Queensland courts longest running sagas, Megumi Ogawa's case went to the District Court last year after many preliminary court appearances in which her fitness to stand trial was questioned.

A District Court jury in Brisbane found Ogawa guilty of two counts of using a carriageway to harass and two counts of threatening to kill on various dates between April 12 and May 19, 2006. Judge Stuart Durward then charged Ogawa with the contempt for her "disgraceful'' behaviour moments after the jury delivered its verdict.


He said it was unlikely any court in Queensland had ever been witness to such appalling behaviour.

Ogawa's behaviour included screaming loudly, claiming she was about to soil herself, trying to disrobe and exposing her buttocks to a journalist while being dragged into court in handcuffs.

I bolded that last part for emphasis. She's a real prize, no doubt.

[IparryU]

Apparently her case just goes on, and on, and on . . . .


I bolded that last part for emphasis. She's a real prize, no doubt.

i dont think she is a nub job... if that was the case, we would have to let half the convics off the hook and call it a day. dont give them too much slack!

just your typical below average person trying to achieve and spent too much time and auzi land.

any clue how she mooned the judge? was it like a lift up the skirt flash or the classic drop the drawers and shine?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Screw this dumb cunt....She's spoiled by the fucking pinko, feminazi-dominated Australian legal system. Treat her like they would in her homeland....smash her and utterly disgrace her socially. She tried to take a shit in the courtroom for God's sake...Why is she allowed to continue this bullshit?

[omae mona]

[rooboy]

i dont think she is a nub job... if that was the case, we would have to let half the convics off the hook and call it a day. dont give them too much slack!

just your typical below average person trying to achieve and spent too much time and auzi land.

I'd say just the typical Asian etc misfit in Oz trying to take advantage of the system and the way successive govts forgot that their role is to govern for Aussies and not the flotsam of the fucking world who think we owe them something.

It's not so bad if Asian countries give the same fucking good deal but they don't with their xenophobic sytems and ideas that they're allowed to force foreigners to carry ID all the time, act like foreigners are tourists when they've been working and living in the country etc etc.

I don't want Oz to be like Asian countries but I'd like us to crack down on the advantage takers who think we're suckers.

Other cases besides the ugly J freak who's not really bloody mentally ill but applying the Asian double standard and going troppo because Oz isn't bowing to the 'superior' Japanese are the Korean female students who (what else?:rolleyes: ) think our student visa system is for them to come in and go whoring around instead of studying.

'Korea Pride' - what a fucking joke when your women are known for selling themselves and your men for beating up women in the street like the heroes they are. And for living illegally in North America, enslaving women in Asia and selling them to Korean cunts operating brothels in the US/Canada, and raping and murdering your way thru western countries to show your sense of entitlement even more.

And then there's the 'asylum seekers' Chinese who overstayed their student visas cause of course there aint never was an intention of going home - saw on the net last night they were up on a fucking detention centre roof threatening to jump 'if their demand are not met'.

Yeah, sure, my folks and friends in Oz want you there as residents and then citizens, I mean you're such fucking reasonable people and you'll be such a fucking asset with your assumptions of superiority. You can hold a country whose laws you broke to ransom, right, because you're Chinese. Back in China any foreigner who does any shit they don't like ends up disappeared or with a bullet in the head.

[Coligny]

Take, you didun't telled us your australian cousin was here for a sleepover... You really should have told... so we could sockpile on horse tranquilizer...