Spare Zuma from merry-go-round of judicial buck passing, legal team urges judge

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Former president Jacob Zuma is an “old person” who should not be forced to endure the strain and cost of a trial before being allowed to state his case regarding alleged prosecutorial bias before the Supreme Court of Appeal, his legal team told the Pietermaritzburg high court.

“The cases are replete with references to the fact that it is not in the interests of justice to submit an accused to the strain and expense of a trial if it can be avoided by allowing an appeal out of the ordinary sequence.

Earlier Mpofu submitted Zuma was being “treated differently” from others and, in some instances, with unseemly haste. In my own experience, I've never seen any person, accused or not, in respect of whom the law seems to be so over-eager and speedy to summarily deal with him“In my own experience, I've never seen any person, accused or not, in respect of whom the law seems to be so over-eager and speedy to summarily deal with him.”

 

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We are tired of Zuma this Zuma that. Otherwise just give him life sentence so that we don't have to read about him.

If he stopped ducking and diving he would have had his day in court years ago,

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