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Originally Posted by tompe
Sweden is a small country and in small town you always will get these kind of diffuse conflicts. So for practical purposed you cannot have a rule that do not allow any sort of connections.
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Nor is a connection necessarily a reason for a biased trial - but thats (in my eyes and without any reference to the laws in Sweden or Germany) even more reason to clear thus points openly and frankly before the trial begins. Thus I agree to this part
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Originally Posted by tompe
One of the lawyers point was that if he had told about it before the trial then the lawyers could have taken this into account and maybe coming to the conclusion that it did not matter. But since they were not told they wan to have the sentencing thrown out.
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