Rolf Harris - trial starts today

[spaximus]

As all 12 counts were heard at the same time, as a juror is it likely that evidence that was presented by the prosecution witness that has been proven to be wrong, could have swayed jurors.


I would have thought that it would be better to allow a retrial of the other 11 that the appeal judge felt were safe or am I missing something here?

He was tried on more allegations and they were all found to be wrong, unless you believe there was a miscarriage of justice here so how confident can we be that he was not a victim of police wanting a celebrity head?

[anonymous-user]

The Court of Appeal regarded the other eleven convictions as safe, so they stand.

[spaximus]

Breadvan72 said:

The Court of Appeal regarded the other eleven convictions as safe, so they stand.

My question was how come?

If the Jury heard evidence when all stacked up made a case for them to find guilty, if one piece is now found to be based on lies could that have swayed the jury.

The judges were not there or heard the jury members deliberations

[anonymous-user]

No, but they heard the arguments on appeal and decided that there was nothing sufficient to impeach the eleven convictions. I don't know what the arguments were or the Court's reasoning.