A MURDER trial has collapsed at the Central Criminal Court due to the content of last night’s Prime Time programme on RTE, which the judge said was likely to have influenced the deliberating jury. A MURDER trial has collapsed at the Central Criminal Court due to the content of last night’s Prime Time programme on RTE, which the judge said was likely to have influenced the deliberating jury. A segment in Tuesday's 'Prime Time' programme focused on a recent Kerry murder trial, and there was a general discussion about the law of provocation. However, before the jury was brought into court, Mr Grehan raised a segment from the Prime Time programme with the judge. Mr Grehan said that he couldn’t find this comment in any of Mr Justice Hardiman’s judgements.

Source: Irish Independent December 05, 2018 15:20 UTC