PROCEDURE BEFORE TRIAL
ACCUSED PERSON'S RIGHT NO PRIOR JUDICIAL COMMENT [by telegram:—i>ress association] TIMARU. Tuesday " I intend carefully and deliberately to refrain from any comment of my own," ' said the Chief Justico, Sir Michael Myers, in his charge to the grand jury in the Supremo Court to-day in connection with a murder charge. " My understanding is, and has always been," continued His Honor, " that one of tlie fundamental principles of our administration of justice ill criminal cases is that a person accused of' a crimo has the right, I might almost say the sacred right, of appearing before the trial jury unembarrassed and unprejudiced by any judicial comment. in my opinion, there lies upon every judicial officer, be ho a justice of the peace, coroner, magistrate or Judge of this Court, the sacred duty of avoiding any comment calculated prejudicially to affect that right." His Honor then reviewed the case at length.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21245, 27 July 1932, Page 12
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