Public porn screening in court 'a first'. Umno court has scored many firsts! ;)

Karpal Singh slammed the Kuala Lumpur Magistrate Court's handling of the Datuk T proceedings yesterday for showing the sex video to the public and for allowing Anwar to be implicated in his absence. In a statement today, the Bukit Gelugor MP and veteran lawyer said, “This is the first time in legal history of the country that a pornographic video clip produced as an exhibit in court has been played on two big screens, one facing them magistrate and the other the public gallery.”

While he agreed that as a fundamental element of the charge against the Datuk T trio, the screening had to be done in the presence of the magistrate and relevant parties, and in such situations the public gallery would always be cleared. He said, “It should have been the business of the magistrate to have immediately removed the screen facing the public gallery and cleared the public gallery.”