4.Including those cases brought forward from the previous years, the Appeal Board heard four cases in 1998, of which three were dismissed and the hearing of the remaining one was to be continued in 1999.
5.This time the president of the Court of Appeal, Umaru Abdullahi, asked petitioners to “frontload” their cases, revealing their witnesses and evidence before the hearings start.
7.In all of the trials to date in which DNA evidence has been involved, courts have ruled it as evidence or, on appeal, have remanded the case to the trial court in 22 reported cases and have limited its admissibility in 16 cases, generally because of statistical questions.
