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Online Desk || Zuma’s lawyers say Judge Koen should recuse himself from the former president’s corruption trial – because of possible perceptions that he thought prosecutor Billy Downer was ‘innocent of the crimes’ that Zuma has accused him and this writer of committing.
Jacob Zuma ‘s lawyers say Judge Piet Koen should recuse himself from the former president’s corruption trial – because of possible perceptions that he thought prosecutor Billy Downer was ‘innocent of the crimes’ Zuma had accused him and this writer of committing.
Rajesh JANTILAL / AFPJacob Zuma’s lawyers say Judge Piet Koen should recuse himself from the former president’s corruption trial – because of possible perceptions that he thought prosecutor Billy Downer was”innocent of the crimes” that Zuma has accused him and this writer of committing.
“It would thus be a grave error for Judge Koen not to recuse himself,” Zuma’s lawyers argue in submissions filed at the Kwazulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg, in which they further contend that”it is in the interest of justice that Justice Piet Koen must recuse himself from any further participation in the trial of Mr Zuma”.
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