Defence lawyer Joe Brincat said this afternoon that he will be looking into human rights issues after the Criminal Appeals Court this afternoon quashed a 25-year-jail term imposed after a trial by jury.
Steve Marsden was behind bars in Malta for more than three years before being finally freed this afternoon, with the court declaring he had been wrongly convicted of conspiring to import 50,000 ecstasy pills in the summer of 2006.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091102/local/appeals-court-revokes-25-year-jail-term