Could you elaborate on this? I agree that the ruling seems to be correct: the jury was instructed wrongly in the original trial. However, to me it seems that shredding documents after you know that a major company is about to go down, partly because of highly dodgy accounting practises, is, well, probably not legal. Certainly not right.
So I’m not sure I see why you say "witchcraft conviction". They weren’t being accused of witchcraft were they; they were accused of illegal accountacy practises? Or have I got this wrong?
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