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    Lockerbie "might" have been a miscarriage of justice... Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on March 11, 2020, 6:49 pm

    https://www.dumptheguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/11/lockerbie-bomber-conviction-may-have-been-miscarriage-of-justice

    and in other news, grass is green, the sky is blue.

    A grievous miscarriage of justice – described by some as the worst in British legal history – may have occurred in the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi for the Lockerbie bombing, the Scottish criminal cases review commission has found.

    Like these ####ers didn't know all this nineteen years ago when the deals were done.

    The legal team submitted six grounds why the Megrahi case constituted a miscarriage of justice. The commission upheld two of the grounds, concluding a miscarriage of justice may have occurred by reason of an “unreasonable verdict”, which allows an appeal on the basis that a conviction was based upon a verdict that no reasonable jury could have returned, and on the ground of “non-disclosure”.Anwar’s team submitted a number of allegations of the failure of the crown to disclose evidence, which could have been key to the defence and interfered with the right of a free trial

    I don't expect the appeals to be successful in the end unless someone is about to be hung out to dry, not for the first time in this case.

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