‘Possibility of fabrication exists’: State and Brown Mogotsi defence at odds over concealing witness details
It was a brief appearance in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court for alleged political fixer Brown Mogotsi, where the state and defence clashed over the handing over of witness names and addresses.“But the state cannot simply come to us and tell us that we are not going to give you the names of these particular witnesses without any specific court order, exercising a discretion which is not based in law.” ‘Witnesses die’ The judge ordered that the state furnish Mogotsi’s defence with all the requested statements; however, it dismissed the application for witness names.
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