Warne Verdict Tonight

[roostersgal4eva]

from fox sports
Warne verdict tonight
By Robert Craddock and wires
February 21, 2003

THE Australian Cricket Board committee hearing the doping charge against Shane Warne is expected to deliver a verdict tonight.

Summing up is now in progress after each of the seven witnesses provided their testimony at the ACB headquarters in Melbourne.

The three-person committee – comprising Queensland judge Justice Glen Williams, former Test spinner Peter Taylor and medical expert Susan White – is expected to retire to consider its verdict at 5pm.

Lawyer Jeffrey Sher started presenting documents and witnesses immediately after a 45-minute lunch break.

The hearing started this morning with Melbourne barrister Elizabeth Brimer producing witnesses for the ACB.

Legal sources revealed last night that Warne's team is planning to attack the ACB charge that the leg-spinner used diuretics as a masking agent - believing they can prove he took the drug solely for weight-loss purposes.

The ACB could have charged Warne with a lesser offence of simply taking a diuretic for dieting purposes.

Had it done this he could not have fought the charge because he has already admitted his guilt.

But by being accused of using it as a masking agent, Warne has a chance to fight it on the grounds that it is simply not true and his legal team is hoping if they can prove he did not take the drugs for this purpose the entire case may collapse.

If found guilty, however, the penalty will be severe.


The Australian Cricket Board has chosen well in naming former Test spinner Peter Taylor as its representative on the panel.

Taylor is a smart, worldly man, who was one of the most thoughtful cricketers of his era and redefined the art of slow bowling in the limited overs game.

Now running a farm in northern NSW, he has always been his own man.

It will not worry him making a decision which does not receive universal support - so long as he was happy in his heart it was the right one.

im hoping they will make a desision based on FACTS not on how good it will make us look

 

[goal_umpire]

the judges are about to deliberate over the case. The verdict will be known later on tonight.

 

[roostersgal4eva]

latest is that verdict is at 7 tonight

 

[ScouseCat]

Warne hearing adjourned until tomorrow
AAP - 21 February 2003

http://www-aus.cricket.org/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2003/FEB/144539_AAP_21FEB2003.html

MELBOURNE, Feb 21 AAP - The committee in the Shane Warne drugs hearing will not return its verdict until tomorrow.

The hearing was adjourned at 5.40pm this evening, nearly eight hours after it started.

Australian Cricket Board spokesman Peter Young said the three-person committee hearing Warne's case had decided to adjourn and deliberate overnight.

He said it would reconvene at 11am tomorrow when it hoped to announce its verdict.

Warne tested positive to a banned diuretic on January 22, the day he announced his retirement from international one-day cricket.

After much deliberation, he was charged with using a prohibited method, meaning he faced a minimum two-year ban if found guilty.

But there was scope for Warne to be given a lesser sentence or even escape penalty under an "exceptional circumstance" clause in the ACB's anti-doping policy.

"The committee has decided to adjourn and they will reconvene at 11am tomorrow," said ACB spokesman Peter Young.

"They will consider their position overnight and they hope to be in a position to issue a determination here at 11am tomorrow ...

"I think all can we read into it is they want an appropriate amount of time."

When asked if he could reveal the identity of the seven witnesses who appeared before the hearing today, Young replied: "It's a closed hearing and I'm not in a position to confirm any other detail other than what I have just said."

Warne left the hearing without comment, speeding off in his car flanked by wife Simone and brother and manager Jason.

The three people charged with deciding Warne's cricketing future were committee chairman Justice Glen Williams, medical expert Dr Susan White and former Test spin bowler Peter Taylor.

The ACB called five witnesses today and Warne's legal team brought forward another two for the hearing which started at 9.50am at the ACB's Jolimont headquarters.

Should Warne be cleared tomorrow he would be free to rejoin his teammates at the World Cup in South Africa.

Suspension would mean a replacement being chosen to replenish the 15-man squad.

The most likely replacements would be Queensland off-spinner Nathan Hauritz or New South Wales leg-spinner Stuart MacGill.

The only other two drugs cases heard by the ACB involved players with much lower profiles than Warne.

West Australian Duncan Spencer received an 18-month ban two years ago after testing positive to the steroid nandrolone.

Last year, NSW batsman Graeme Rummans was fined $2000 and banned for a month after testing positive to probenecid.

 

[Langer's_Babe]

everyone will find out at 11am saturday morning

it sucks i wish it was now