Eric Ssegujja💙
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Eric Ssegujja💙
@ssega2001
Policy/Behavioral Scientist, Husband,Father, Son, Brother, Researcher, Golfer





The previous post is not about the performance of the state prosecutor who was under cross-examination, but rather the brilliant manner of his cross-examination by Counsel Fredrick Mpanga (Kyomuhendo is a good lawyer with a bad case). There, in that instance, was pure, high-level, excellent court advocacy from which many could learn valuable lessons. But let me raise a more granular point from that process: disclosure. The prosecutor misquoted the Soon Yeon Kong & Kwanga Mao v Attorney General, Constitutional Reference No 7 of 2007. He may have forgotten that the firm of AF Mpanga were the lawyers in that case and thus could not be misled about the court's findings. That is why, when handed the court's decision, he could not point to a paragraph on the State's right, indeed to any mention of witness protection in the law, resorting instead to extrapolations and misinterpretations of the judgment. The prosecution has treated disclosure as a discretionary power, thereby abusing the process. The effect of the Soon Yeon case is the imposition of a duty on all parties to make both exculpatory and inculpatory disclosures. In simple terms, disclose both incriminatory and exculpatory (evidence of the innocence of the accused person, which may have been discovered in investigations). That is what a fair trial would mean and look like. I hope the court rejects the request for an in-camera trial and the attempt to conceal the witness from public testimony. If you have a good-faith, strong case, bring it on in the public glare. youtu.be/leP08TK-wDk?si…




























