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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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