JUDGES ON TRIAL
IMPROPER SOVIET SENTENCES. (United Press Association—ujy Electric Telegiapb—Copyright.) LONDON, October 30. “The Times’ ’’ Riga correspondent stales that the Soviet has ordered the .arrest .and trial of eight judges in the Urals for an offence that is unique in Russian annals. These judges, -regardless of whether the acriused were guilty or inocent, have allegedly imposed lengthy sentences »m engineers and specialists, thereby ignoring the Government’s directions. Apparently the judges have been untable to keap pace with the zigzag policy of justice and have -applied their earlier instructions instead of .altering the indictments to permit of milder sentences, as required 'from Moscow. Many of the improper sentences have now been quashed. Thirty judges and court officials at Minsk are undergoing ■« trial for p-as-sing over mild sentences in consideration of bribes, for which the penalty is death.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1933, Page 5
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