But because no spacecraft had ever passed through the region before, Cassini engineers oriented the spacecraft
so that its 13 - foot - wide (4 - meter - wide) antenna pointed in the direction of oncoming ring particles, shielding its delicate instruments
as a
protective measure during its April 26 dive.
If they would not give evidence, dangerous criminals would walk free and both society and the administration of justice would suffer; (ii) it was settled law that the paramount object had always been to do justice and that if, in order to do justice, some adaptation of ordinary procedure was called for, it should be made,
so long
as the overall fairness of the trial was not compromised; (iii) recent case law supported the adoption of
protective measures; (iv) the Strasbourg jurisprudence, properly understood, did not condemn the use of
protective measures; and (v) the defendant was protected from the risk of unfairness by the prosecutor's duty of disclosure.