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Thu 07 Jul 2010Judge's speech impeded fair trial, court rules
A SPEECH made separately by a judge while he was presiding over a trial of two brothers for murder effectively rendered their subsequent murder convictions unsafe, the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) has ruled.
The speech by High Court judge Mr Justice Paul Carney at University College Cork – while he was presiding over the trial of brothers Warren and Jeffrey Dumbrell – contained “prejudicial material” leading to a “reasonable apprehension” they had not received a fair trial, and rendered their murder convictions unsafe, the CCA ruled.
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