MALAYSIA: JUDGE'S ERROR LETS OFF DEATH ROW POSTMAN

the Malaysian Federal Court acquitted postman Mohd Shamshir Md Rasid due to a serious misdirection by a trial judge over the admissibility of a cautioned statement. Shamshir, 37, was sentenced to death by the Seremban High Court on Feb 10, 2004, for trafficking 366.1g of cannabis in Negri Sembilan, on March 11, 2000. The Court of Appeal had upheld the conviction.