Just in from the Court of Appeal is another humiliation for the Director of Public Prosecutions losing on appeal in their efforts to prove allegations Daniel Schmidt had his hand in the till selling booze at Dickson Woolies.
Both the magistrate and the primary judge said that the prosecution case was confused and presented confusingly. That criticism was well founded. The prosecution case was presented in a disorganised and unsatisfactory manner. That made it unnecessarily difficult to follow.
Largely on that basis verdicts of aquittal have now been entered.