The State had hurriedly pushed an appeal against Justice Willy's ruling on the treason charges against the four Principals of the Restoration of Democracy Alliance to the Court of Appeal . It was not enough that the judge had been murdered alongside all of the seven jurors who had presided over the case . If the State thought the Court of Appeal would be persuaded to rule in its favour because of this atrocious activities , they were yet to come into the sad reality that citizens had long developed thick shock-absorbers . The Prosecution had premised their appeal on two legality principles . First , it postulated that the trial judge had erred in admitting illegally obtained evidence . Secondly , that the judge allowed an unsworn evidence which had adverse effect on the outcome of the ca

