Rock star can still get fair trial: judge

A judge ruled that a French rock star’s chances of a fair trial in the fatal beating of his girlfriend were not compromised by a new book that accuses him of being a murderer.

Rock star can still get fair trial: judge

A judge ruled that a French rock star’s chances of a fair trial in the fatal beating of his girlfriend were not compromised by a new book that accuses him of being a murderer.

A lawyer for Bertrand Cantat, frontman for rock band Noir Desir (Black Desire), had argued that the book by his girlfriend’s mother undermined the singer’s right to be presumed innocent.

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