Appeal Is Denied in Pirate Bay Case (possibly not true)

[admin]

The men said their judge, Tomas Norstrom, left, had been biased against them because he belonged to several copyright lobby groups, but the court said it had found no evidence of bias.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/ar....html?ref=arts

Is the New York Times wrong?

This article seems to suggest they may be:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/200...21115219.shtml

TPB defence wanted to claim bias against the judge, but the district court (the one that has tried the case) denies such claims and has said so to the appeals court, which has yet to rule - this is what the techdirt article states.

Does anybody know what's really going on? Cynthia?

[cynthia]

Originally Posted by admin

TPB defence wanted to claim bias against the judge, but the district court (the one that has tried the case) denies such claims and has said so to the appeals court, which has yet to rule - this is what the techdirt article states.

This article is true.

The lower court (Tingrätten) has sent an answer of what they think in the matter of the suspicion of the judge being compromised to the middle (appeal) court (Hovrätten) and stated that the judge was not compromised.

It's now up to the middle court to rule if the case should go back to the lower court for a re trial or not, based if this middle court find the judge comprised or not. If not - then the case will show up as an appeal in the middle court as planned and they (The Pirate Bay) will have the original verdict reappraised.

After the middle court - it's only one instance left and that is the highest court (Högsta domstolen). It's tricky to get a case up in that court as they only deal with very rare issues that could include interpretation of an unclear law situation.

[admin]

Thanks for the info, Cynthia. Really appreciate it!

[cynthia]

The trial will not be redone in the lower court as the middle court ruled today that the judge was not bias.