{"content":[{"text":"Informal Copy of Judgement","bbox":{"left":0.24192,"top":0.06193,"width":0.25311399999999995,"height":0.019584000000000004}},{"text":"the 4 October 2004. The relevant part of the judgement \n reads as follows:","bbox":{"left":0.24192,"top":0.104389,"width":0.6066499999999999,"height":0.04201200000000001}},{"text":"“Having seen the application filed by the Attorney \n General on the 31st. August, 2004, wherein he \n requested that the accused be subjected to a separate \n trial from the other co-accused in terms of section 594 \n of the Criminal Code;","bbox":{"left":0.24192,"top":0.16172,"width":0.607115,"height":0.099585}},{"text":"“Having seen this Court’s decree of the 2nd \n September, 2004, whereby it upheld said request and \n ordered that a separate trial be held for each of the \n two co-accused;","bbox":{"left":0.24192,"top":0.275184,"width":0.6070669999999999,"height":0.081795}},{"text":"“Having seen the joint application filed by the \n Attorney General and the accused of today’s date \n whereby in terms of Section 453A(1)(2) of the Criminal \n Code they submitted that, in the eventuality of the \n accused pleading guilty to the counts of the bill of \n indictment, the punishment which should be imposed \n upon him should be that of imprisonment for a period \n of fifteen (15) years and a fine (multa) of twenty five \n thousand Maltese Liri (LM25,000) apart from other \n sanctions and consequences which are mandatory \n upon conviction in terms of the provisions of \n Chapters 31 and 101 of the Laws of Malta, and \n whereby they requested that this Court should \n sentence the accused to said punishment;","bbox":{"left":0.24192,"top":0.374929,"width":0.607236,"height":0.26884800000000003}},{"text":"“Having seen that in today’s sitting, the accused, in \n reply to the question as to whether he was guilty or \n not guilty of the charges preferred against him under \n the five counts of the Bill of Indictment, stated that he \n was pleading guilty thereto;","bbox":{"left":0.24192,"top":0.661868,"width":0.606768,"height":0.09668200000000005}},{"text":"“Having seen that this Court then warned the accused \n in the most solemn manner of the legal consequences \n of such statement and allowed him a short time to \n retract it, according to Section 453 (Chap. 9);","bbox":{"left":0.24192,"top":0.776499,"width":0.606768,"height":0.07769000000000004}},{"text":"“Having seen that the accused, being granted such a \n time, persisted in his statement of admission of guilt;","bbox":{"left":0.24192,"top":0.869336,"width":0.6069180000000001,"height":0.04214600000000002}},{"text":"Page 2 of 11","bbox":{"left":0.743163,"top":0.938783,"width":0.10596000000000005,"height":0.019584000000000046}},{"text":"Courts of Justice","bbox":{"left":0.470386,"top":0.955174,"width":0.15023099999999995,"height":0.019584000000000046}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}