Zuma's latest bid to force the removal of his corruption prosecutor Billy Downer is already dead in the water, said the State
Zuma's latest bid to force the removal of his corruption prosecutor, Billy Downer, is already dead in the water, said the State.This comes after the Supreme Court of Appeal last week unanimously dismissed Zuma’s bid to challenge the enforcement of the ruling invalidating his private prosecution of state advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan.
Downer made it clear the NPA will push for the former president’s trial to proceed, despite whatever appeals may follow his 26 October bid to again force the prosecutor’s removal, if that bid is unsuccessful. The former president’s legal team had raised 14 grounds for Downer to be recused including his claim the prosecutor had been party to the unlawful leaking of court papers – containing a sick note from his military doctor Brigadier Mcebisi Mdutywa to Maughan.after finding that many of them were “based on speculation or suspicion or are based on inadmissible hearsay evidence and not on fact”.
In January this year Koen announced his decision to recuse himself from the matter for the “strong views” he made when he dismissed Zuma‘s bid to get arms deal prosecutor, Downer, removed from the corruption and fraud trial.
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