Word: martinus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lawyer did not call it murder, but he held the state at least partly responsible for Biko's death. In a five-minute verdict at week's end, the presiding magistrate, Martinus Prins, ruled out the possibility of charges against the police. Biko's death could not be attributed, he declared, to "any criminal act or omission by any person." Case dismissed...
...former synagogue converted to judicial use several years ago. There each morning Biko's widow Ntsiki and other relatives, still dressed in deep mourning, assembled silently in the front row. Some 250 other spectators packed the remaining seats. Presiding over the inquest was Chief Pretoria Magistrate Martinus Prins. But the man who dazzled the courtroom was Kentridge, 55, a defense veteran of some of South Africa's landmark political trials over the past two decades, whose services were secured by Biko's family...