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 Posted: Thu Jul 19th, 2012 17:50
richw



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steve of oxford wrote:


The judge ordered Harwoods previous not disclosed to the court, why? if it was a civilian in the dock on a manslaughter rap you can bet his previous would be admissible.



This is normal, and results in consistent miss-carriage of justice, if jury's knew the background of half the people they find not guilty there would be a lot more folk in jail.