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| Southeast Asia |
| Court Rejects Appeal of Bali Bomber |
| 2004-01-07 |
| Indonesia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a militant sentenced to death for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings, a court spokesman said Wednesday. Fryday’s coming! Lawyers for the militant, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, said they had yet to be informed of the verdict, but added they would file a judicial review of the case with the Supreme Court - a process that could take months or years. Pri Pambudi Teguh, a spokesman for the Supreme Court, said a three-judge panel threw out Amrozi’s appeal on Tuesday. "Iiiiiick! Somebody open a window!" "The accused’s objections were not backed by the judicial facts," he told The Associated Press, reading from a copy of the verdict. Masterful understatement! Amrozi was the first of 29 militants convicted in the attack to appeal to the Supreme Court. The Bali Higher Court had turned down an earlier request to have his sentence quashed. A judicial review requires new evidence to be submitted before it is heard. If the Supreme Court rejects the review, then Amrozi’s final chance to avoid execution would be appealing directly to the president for clemency. She’d better not. |
| Posted by:Steve White |