Analysis: Decision suggests courts increasingly unhappy about convicting solely on accomplice/protected witness evidence
“Will the system tolerate an acquittal of someone like Gerry Hutch?” one lawyer asked. “That is the question.”
It was very matter of fact about the problems with Dowdall’s evidence as the evidence of an accomplice and as a potential participant in the State’s Witness Security programme.
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