Justice denied ?

 Tues 19.9.2023.

I'd wanted to sit down and put my thoughts about the DNAA case of  Jait for more than a week, but I couldn't sit down. This morning I told myself "write now or you'll never write about it."

Having 2 practicing lawyers in my immediate family, and 2 others from among first cousins and nephews (one a serving State Syariah Chief Justice, the other an Assistant Commissioner in the Police), and playing golf twice a week for the last 9 years with 1 ex Federal Court Judge and 2 ex Appeals Court Judges, I have an inkling about the Malaysian Judiciary and our legal system. I should. That does not make me tolerant of, or understanding about the quirks of Malaysian legal proceedings.

I know "dna" has come to assist courts world-wide in legal cases brought before them.. It was not there from the beginning. Tragically many miscarriages of justice have been discovered with the use of dna, when wrong convictions  were meted out without it earlier. Now DNAA?

I'm not making jokes with words. Justice is God-like. But the Malaysian Judiciary must be making a sick joke with the DNAA for the DPM. And to stress the injustice, at the same time a thief convicted with stealing RM 22 from a mosque was given a 10-year imprisonment by the same judicial system.

Stop playing with technicalities and legalese hair-splitting. Bring out the truth and use facts to decide cases. Years have passed by in this particular court case. 47 charges have been tabled. How many lawyers from both sides have taken part in the whole affair? And just like that, one day before the AG retired, he said "DNAA"!

I'm told that the Golden Saying is that Justice must not only done, but must been seen to be done.  There's even a saying that justice delayed is justice denied.

I don't see justice done. I see justice denied.

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