Finally, retrials are ignored, and reneging is not allowed once a customer starts his service.
He was acquitted at the retrial this year.
On subsequent retrial, two of the defendants concerned were acquitted.
Of the 180 appeals against conviction allowed, 70 retrials were ordered; of that 70, 58 had received a custodial sentence.
The retrials resulted in six findings of guilt and three acquittals; and in one case the jury again disagreed and the accused was discharged.
At consequent retrials, juries appear to split about fifty-fifty between convictions, on the one hand, and acquittals or further disagreements, on the other.
The same judge presided at the initial trial in 1994 and remains the presiding judge in the current retrial.
While we must welcome the fact that there is at last a retrial, what does it amount to?
