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Originally Posted by Cav
From an article in today's Australian
It’s a measure of the gulf between the two sides that each felt aggrieved by Justice Besanko’s grant of immunity certificates to several soldiers who otherwise might not have given evidence, for fear of implicating themselves in war crimes.
The newspaper’s lawyers were angry that a key witness, Person 4, got a certificate that allowed him to testify about what he saw in the village of Darwan – Roberts-Smith kicking Ali Jan off the cliff – but not about his own alleged role in committing a murder at Whiskey 108 alongside Roberts-Smith.
Roberts-Smith’s lawyers were angry because Person 4 had managed, in their words, “to do a deal with Nine” so he didn’t have to give evidence about his own war crimes but was allowed to give evidence about those alleged against their client.
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Give it a rest, you are now grasping at straws, the verdict is in. BRS has the option of appeal.