Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata’s case was postponed to next Monday to allow his defence team to resolve an impasse relating to his discharge.
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/ 24 February 2009
An application to discharge Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata on charges of drunken driving will be brought on March 9.
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/ 17 February 2009
Judgement was reserved by a court on Tuesday in the state’s third application to call a witness to testify in Nkola Motata’s drunken-driving trial.
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/ 16 February 2009
A witness in the drunken driving case against Judge Nkola Motata was again barred from testifying in the Jo’burg Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
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/ 28 January 2009
The forensic analyst who assessed Judge Nkola Motata’s blood alcohol content on Wednesday admitted to ignoring scientific standards when analysing blood samples. When asked by defence advocate Danie Dorfling if he ”agreed” that he ignored the Council for Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR) standards, analyst Logan Govender said: ”That’s correct”. With the help of an expert […]
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/ 28 January 2009
The forensic analyst who assessed Judge Nkola Motata’s blood-alcohol content on Wednesday admitted to ignoring scientific standards.
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/ 27 January 2009
Judge Nkola Motata’s drunk-driving trial on Tuesday centred on calculations used to validate the quantity of alcohol in his blood stream.
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/ 27 January 2009
The drunken-driving trial of Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata was on Tuesday delayed by a faulty recording device.
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/ 10 November 2008
The defence in Judge Nkola Motata’s drunken-driving trial on Monday raised queries about apparent discrepancies in the registration of a blood sample.
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/ 6 November 2008
Calling a new witness to testify in Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata’s drunken-driving trial would prejudice Motata and infringe his rights.
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/ 3 November 2008
The drunken-driving trial of Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata was on Monday postponed by the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court.
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/ 23 October 2008
Judge Nkola Motata’s lawyer has rejected an application by the prosecution to lead a new witness in Motata’s drunken-driving trial.
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/ 22 October 2008
Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata’s drunken-driving trial was on Wednesday characterised by inconsistencies.
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/ 16 October 2008
The court in Judge Nkola Motata’s drunken-driving trial has sought clarity on the medical condition of a witness who says he suffers from memory loss.
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/ 15 October 2008
Judge Nkola Motata smelled like alcohol on the night of his car accident, a police officer told the judge’s drunken-driving trial on Wednesday.
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/ 15 October 2008
The defence and the state clashed on Wednesday during the drunken-driving trial of Judge Nkola Motata over allegations of coaching a witness.
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/ 14 October 2008
Allegations of racial slurs and surprise documents emerged in Judge Nkola Motata’s drunken-driving trial in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
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/ 14 October 2008
A number of twists emerged in the drunken-driving trial of Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
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/ 14 October 2008
A witness in Judge Nkola Motata’s drunken-driving trial said the owner of a property the judge crashed into called the judge a ”drunken kaffir”.
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/ 13 October 2008
Prosecutions chief Charin de Beer will be called to court to discuss alleged threats made against a witness in Judge Nkola Motata’s trial.
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/ 15 September 2008
Johannesburg metro police told Judge Nkola Motata that a property owner ”forced” them to arrest him, a court heard on Monday.
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/ 15 September 2008
Police drove away from the scene of an accident involving Judge Nkola Motata after being told by radio control not to arrest him, a court has heard.
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/ 4 September 2008
Judge Nkola Motata’s blood-alcohol level was four times over the legal limit when a blood sample was drawn, a court has heard.
Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata denied being drunk at the scene of an accident, the defence proposed in court on Wednesday.
A note apparently written by high court Judge Nkola Motata on the night of his alleged drunken-driving accident was admitted as evidence on Wednesday.
Cellphone recordings taken on the night of an alleged drunken-driving accident involving High Court Judge Nkola Motata are admissible as evidence.
Court hears that witness wasn’t careless in handling cellphone recordings taken after an accident involving Judge Nkola Motata.
Cellphone recordings taken on the night of Judge Nkola Motata alleged drunken-driving incident are not reliable, says the judge’s defence.
Digital data such as the cellphone recordings of Judge Nkola Motata’s alleged drunken rantings should be considered as real evidence, the state says.
Judgement on the admissibility of recordings taken at the scene of Judge Nkola Motata’s alleged drunken-driving accident is expected next week.
Digital data is far easier to manipulate than analogue data, a legal evidence expert has testified at Judge Nkola Motata’s drunken-driving trial.
Judge Nkola Motata’s drunken-driving case was postponed in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday because a state witness is ill.