The contempt and mercy fallout: Revisiting the scales of adjudication
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When judges/courts start a suo motu proceeding of contempt, they act as the prosecutor, the witness, and the judge, which makes it equivocal and solely at the discretion of the judges themselves to decide whether the act or words were fair criticism or not.
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