Zuma throws another legal dice, tells Concourt that jailing him will serve no constitutional value 15h ago Share Finding an unexpected legal loophole, former president Jacob Zuma on Friday threw another legal dice, asking the Constitutional Court to review its own decision to sentence him to 15 months in prison. In legal papers filed in court, Zuma cited a range of factors, including that he was sentenced without a trial. Moreover, he alleged that the court panel that sentenced him included Judge Dhaya Pillay, formally with the Pietermaritzburg High Court, stressing that her presence contaminated the proceedings as Pillay had proven to be his adversary that an officer of the law.