THE State has submitted that the charges initially levelled against Ronald Chitotela which resulted in the undertaking that he would not be subjected to prosecution in the same matter, were not determined on their merits as required by law. The State has submitted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Court, High Court division, that there was, therefore, no determination on the merits of the earlier indictment to sustain a plea that Chitotela had already been tried and convicted or acquitted of the same offence. The State has therefore insisted that the court should allow its appeal against the Lusaka Subordinate Court’s decision to discharge Chitotela of the two counts of being in possession of property suspected to be proceeds of...