Thursday, February 15, 2007

An Irish prosecution

In which the prosecution as part of its case presents evidence helpful to the defence, which would be fine, except that it was the wrong evidence -- the actual evidence being much more damaging the defence, so the jury is hastily briefed on what happened, given the new evidence and told to make a decision on that basis. If the defendant is found guilty, he has a ready case that the trial was botched, and if a confused jury finds him not guilty, another trial will be difficult if not impossible. One wonders how the Minister for Justice spends his time.

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