The Nationalist Party’s decision to refrain from commenting on Yorgen Fenech’s trial has proved to be the right one, Opposition leader Alex Borg said on Friday. Borg spoke to Times of Malta shortly after Justice Edwina Grima rejected a defence request to dissolve the jury following concerns over court-provided tablets given to jurors. The defence made
Judge Edwina Grima on Friday rejected a motion filed by Yorgen Fenech's defence to have his trial by jury dissolved over concerns on media headlines that jurors may have seen on their court-provided tablets. The motion centred around a discovery that the tablets that were provided to jurors for them to access the voluminous documents had allowed them
Judge Edwina Grima has rejected the defence’s request to dissolve the jury in the Yorgen Fenech murder trial, allowing the proceedings to continue. The defence argued that the jurors had access to headlines containing information which had either been declared inadmissible or which should not have been referred to by witnesses or the press. Dr Charles
We’re currently waiting inside the courtroom for Judge Edwina Grima to deliver her decision on the defence’s plea to dissolve the jury in the Yorgen Fenech murder trial. The defence has argued that the jury’s access to more than 400 media headlines through the tablets provided during the trial has exposed jurors to outside information, including material
The murder trial of Yorgen Fenech hangs in the balance after his lawyers formally asked the court to discharge the jury and dissolve proceedings over jurors’ access to hundreds of media headlines through tablets supplied to them during the trial. Judge Edwina Grima is expected to deliver a decision on the request on Friday afternoon after hearing lengthy
The prosecution has objected to the defence’s request to dissolve the jury in the Yorgen Fenech murder trial, arguing that the application could have been raised earlier and that the circumstances do not justify restarting the trial. The prosecution said the defence could have raised the matter at the start of Friday’s sitting, while the court was
Addressing what it described as “the tablets matter”, the defence asked the court to dissolve the jury, arguing that jurors had been exposed to more than 400 media headlines during the trial. “We are therefore asking for the Trial by Jury to be dissolved,” Dr Charles Mercieca told Judge Edwina Grima. The defence said a number of the headlines contained
Jurors in the Yorgen Fenech trial were able to see news headlines and images on court tablets, but could not access the full articles, an IT expert told the court. Martin Bajada was asked to examine the tablets after the defence raised concerns that jurors could access news websites and potentially view reporting about the case, despite being required
The judge presiding over the Yorgen Fenech jury trial has ordered a full review of jurors’ court-issued tablets after concerns emerged that they may have been able to view news headlines about the case. Proceedings resumed this morning before Judge Edwina Grima, with defence lawyers raising concerns over both social media commentary and possible media
