Key legal question
Whether the refusal to reopen the criminal case on the ground of obvious abuse of rights was lawful.
Extracted holding
The lower court should not have rejected the request solely as abusive; it had to examine whether the asserted facts were probable and materially relevant for reopening.
Extracted reasoning
A fact can be 'new' even if known to the convicted person but not disclosed to the court. The mere concealment of the engagement and marriage plans did not, without more, establish an evident abuse of rights; abusive motive was not established. The lower court therefore had to assess credibility and materiality under the reopening rules.