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1. Sneddon, now confronted with the looser-position knew a way out though: the admission of witnesses from the 1993-case. That was certainly not because his own case proved to be anchorless and not reliable but with the pretense to demonstrate the defendant have had a certain modus operandi.

Sneddon, der sich nun in der Position des Verlierers sah, wusste aber noch einen Ausweg: Die Zulassung von Zeugen aus dem 1993er Fall.