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I've seen a lot of defendants in the witness box give their account of what happened in a incident and their story is almost always told to fit the known facts, rather than the facts fitting the story. If you listen to someone who is being truthful, then you tend to think "Yeah, I'd have done...

Defendants can, and regularly do, fail to show up for trial. If that happens it goes one of two ways; the defence advocate excuses themself and the case is proved in absence or the trial proceeds without a defendant (which prejudices the trial in favour of the prosecution as D cannot offer...