{"id":478113,"date":"2010-03-26T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16711557.post-3809740710871547225"},"modified":"2010-03-26T17:34:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T21:34:33","slug":"former-south-african-police-commissioner-files-for-acquittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/478113","title":{"rendered":"Former South African Police Commissioner Files for Acquittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53911892@N00\/4465794866\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4054\/4465794866_ef788c7cb2_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53911892@N00\/4465794866\/\">Former South African Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi has filed a motion for acquittal in connection with the prosecutor&#8217;s inability to prove a criminal case against him.<\/a><br \/>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/53911892@N00\/\">Pan-African News Wire File Photos<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Selebi files for acquittal<\/p>\n<p>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:21<\/p>\n<p>Former police chief Jackie Selebi has filed the first papers in his application for acquittal, The Star reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer Wynanda Coetzee said the heads of argument had been submitted to the trial judge and the State prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>When the trial resumes on 7 April the application will begin. <\/p>\n<p>Such applications are intended to convince a judge that the State has failed in proving its case.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, Selebi&#8217;s defence would argue that the evidence presented by the State failed to prove the allegations on the charge sheet.<\/p>\n<p>He is facing a charge of corruption and defeating the ends of justice and has pleaded not guilty.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/16711557-3809740710871547225?l=panafricannews.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former South African Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi has filed a motion for acquittal in connection with the prosecutor&#8217;s inability to prove a criminal case against him.Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Selebi files for acquittal Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:21 Former police chief Jackie Selebi has filed the first papers in his application [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}