Aussie ex-judge says Anwar’s trial ‘unusual’

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COMMENT In his foreword to Mark Trowell’s latest book, ‘The Prosecution of Anwar Ibrahim - the Final Play’, Michael Kirby described the decision to substitute former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s acquittal with a conviction of the sodomy crime as an “unusual in legal process.”

“Judicial lightning could, it seems, strike twice,” the former Australian High Court judge wrote in the 24-page foreword.

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