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Legal bigwigs senior state advocate Marius Stander and defence attorney Peter Daubermann butted heads in the Gqeberha high court on Friday after murder accused businessman Arnold Terblanche brought an application to appeal against a previous court judgment denying him bail.
While the state has wound up its probe into the murder of Vicki Terblanche, her estranged husband, Arnold, continues his quest for freedom and has now approached the Makhanda High Court with an application for leave to appeal against the decision by the magistrate’s court to deny him bail, twice.
A magistrate and the Oxford English dictionary dashed murder accused businessman Arnold Terblanche’s hopes of being released on bail when the meaning of “new fact” was painstakingly explained to him on Monday.
It has become a question of who knows the law best in the bail application of alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche as the defence and state continued to argue the matter in the magistrate's court in Gqeberha.
A stickler for detail, senior state advocate Marius Stander pulled no punches on Tuesday when he asked the Gqeberha magistrate’s court to disregard at least 72 points listed in alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche’s affidavit in his bail application based on new facts.