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<span style="font-weight: bold">Defence attorney should concede when evidence is overwhelming – Acting DPP </span>
Thursday, 16 April 2009
With the country's courts saddled with a long list of cases, a senior Government prosecutor has called on defence attorneys <span style="font-weight: bold">to encourage their clients to throw in the towel whenever the evidence against them is overwhelming.</span>
According to Acting Deputy Director of Public Prosecution Jeremy Taylor, there is a heavy backlog of cases confronting the courts and defence attorneys could assist the system if they encourage their clients to plead guilty in cases where the evidence against them is strong and overwhelming.
Mr. Taylor, who was peaking at the opening of the Easter Session of the Home Circuit Court on Wednesday, also argued that the authorities should examine the amendment to the Jury Act which will allow the court to accept majority verdicts in non-capital murder cases.
This he said will ease the backlog of cases.
Currently, the court only accepts unanimous verdicts in murder cases.
Three hundred and eighty five cases are down to be tried during the session and of this figure, 203 are murder cases while 139 are sexual offence cases.
<span style="font-weight: bold">our judicial system is so famous for its honesty and di cops who collek said evidence etc r sooo famous fi fi dem honesty etc,dat him really tink dis a good recommendation...
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Thursday, 16 April 2009
With the country's courts saddled with a long list of cases, a senior Government prosecutor has called on defence attorneys <span style="font-weight: bold">to encourage their clients to throw in the towel whenever the evidence against them is overwhelming.</span>
According to Acting Deputy Director of Public Prosecution Jeremy Taylor, there is a heavy backlog of cases confronting the courts and defence attorneys could assist the system if they encourage their clients to plead guilty in cases where the evidence against them is strong and overwhelming.
Mr. Taylor, who was peaking at the opening of the Easter Session of the Home Circuit Court on Wednesday, also argued that the authorities should examine the amendment to the Jury Act which will allow the court to accept majority verdicts in non-capital murder cases.
This he said will ease the backlog of cases.
Currently, the court only accepts unanimous verdicts in murder cases.
Three hundred and eighty five cases are down to be tried during the session and of this figure, 203 are murder cases while 139 are sexual offence cases.
<span style="font-weight: bold">our judicial system is so famous for its honesty and di cops who collek said evidence etc r sooo famous fi fi dem honesty etc,dat him really tink dis a good recommendation...
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