Sodomy II gets its 'Azizan moment'

The Sodomy II hearing of Anwar Ibrahim has been awaiting a 'Azizan moment' as well as appears to have had it yesterday.

Azizan Abu Bakar was once a motorist for Anwar's wife, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, as well as was a declare in a initial sodomy hearing in 1998-99 where he claimed in justice testimony which he had been repeatedly sodomised by Anwar.

Under interrogate by Anwar's lawyer, a late Christopher Fernando, he certified three times while underneath oath which no such thing happened to him.

The subsequent day, underneath review by a charge lawyer, he retracted his acknowledgment of a day before.

But in a courtroom of public opinion, a box of Sodomy I had collapsed. Though Anwar was found guilty as well as sentenced to 9 years in prison, a hearing had dry in credit prolonged prior to it eventuated in a guilty verdict.

Since afterwards a 'Azizan moment' has come to signify a present when from a confusion of declare testimony a shard emerges.

This shard is what a legal routine is after in a criminal justice system: which in a crossfire of a adversary system, as any side presents a case, something like 'legal truth' emerges.

On a basement of this 'legal truth', a shame or innocence of a accused is established.

Hitting stone bottom?
In yesterday's record of Sodomy II, Dr Mohd Razali Ibrahim, one of three doctors who had examined a accuser, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, told a justice underneath interrogate by warn Sankara Nair which he found a complainant's rectum empty.

Because Saiful had progressing testified in Sodomy II which he did not defecate for two days after he was sodomised by Anwar, a find by a examining doctor which his rectum was dull was startling.

Sodomy II didn't have to arrive at a 'Azizan moment' yesterday for a box to have been divested of a credibility.
T hat credibility, usually shorn off a box by a prosecution's warding off - inspected by a judge - to allow a counterclaim with a military as well as healing reports which are a normative requirements of due process, took an additional blow on Wednesday from a prosecution's warding off - again postulated by a judge - to supply a clinical records which Dr Razali done when initial examining Saiful.

The doctor needed to look at them prior to he could reply to counterclaim warn Karpal Singh's probing questions.

But neither a charge nor a judge saw fit to refresh a doctor's mental recall through chance to his clinical notes.

There were moments in this box where from a standpoint of a credit you consider which it has hit stone bottom. Think again, because there would be an additional moment where you hear drumming from underneath.

Sodomy II is a distant approach from bottom. - Malaysiakini