Court of Appeal judge Noorin Badaruddin said the High Court judge had erred by treating procedural deficiencies as fatal to the prosecution’s case instead of weighing their evidential value.PUTRAJAYA: Former Perak immigration prosecution chief Zaidi Dali began serving a three-year jail term today after the Court of Appeal restored his conviction on bribery charges.
Justice Noorin Badaruddin, who chaired a three-member bench, said the High Court judge had wrongly treated procedural deficiencies as fatal to the prosecution’s case rather than weighing the evidential value.
Justices Meor Hashimi Abdul Hamid and Radzi Harun were the other members of the panel.
In her broad grounds, Noorin said the prosecution’s evidence had to be assessed cumulatively, taking into account the sequence of events surrounding a meeting on Nov 5, 2020, rather than viewing individual pieces of evidence in isolation.
