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Originally Posted by Nidge
Whatever, don't the Police send the evidence to the CPS?? If the evidence is flawed, like the very tiny flake of gun powder supposedly found in his jacket pocket, the Police said it came from a gun when it transpired the gun powder came from something else. The evidence was flawed right from the start.
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That is why it goes to trial, the Police can only present the evidence they find, the CPS decide whether a trial is justified, the court then decides innocence/guilt, as appropriate.
Gunpowder coming from a gun is a very logical assumption & certainly could not be ignored, it is the job of the court to make the final judgement as to whether that constituted proof beyond reasonable doubt. As for 'flawed from the start', hindsight is always 20/20 - it wasn't thought to be flawed when the initial conviction was secured, nor when the initial appeal against that conviction failed.