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Following is line we suggest you take if questioned in detail on the Abdul Malik (Michael X)
1.
case.
"In the Abdul Malik case, the condemned man
petitioned Her Majesty in Council for special leave to appeal to the Judicial Committee against his conviction
by the Supreme Court of Trinidad, which had been
upheld by the Trinidad Court of Appeal. It will be
appreciated that this was part of the normal judicial
process of Trinidad and Tobago and that the petition
was not a petition for clemency. This petition was
rejected by Her Majesty in Council on the recommendation
of the Judicial Committee and the Governor-General
of Trinidad and Tobago, acting in accordance with the constitution of Trinidad and Tobago on the advice
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