JUDGES ARRAIGNED.
Zigzag Way of Justice in Soviet Russia. MANY IMPROPER SENTENCES. ("Times" Cables.) LONDON, October 30. The correspondent of "The Times" says the Soviet has ordered the arrest and trial of eight judges in the Urals for an offence unique in Russian annals. These judges, regardless of whether accused were guilty or innocent, are alleged to have imposed lengthy sentences on engineers and specialists. By so doing they ignored the Government's directions. Apparently the judges could not keep pace with the zigzag policy ef justice and applied their earlier instructions instead of altering indictments to permit of milder sentences as they were required to do by Moscow. Many improper sentences have now been quashed. Thirty judges and Court officials in Odessa and Minsk are undergoing trial for passing sentences deemed to be too mild, in consideration of bribes. The penalty for this offence is death.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 257, 31 October 1933, Page 7
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