Questão jurídica principal
Whether the refusal to allow the complainant to reply to the district court president's statement violated the right to be heard.
Decisão extraída
Yes. Because the statement contained new and relevant factual assertions on which the complainant had not been heard, he should exceptionally have been allowed to reply.
Fundamentação extraída
A second exchange is generally unnecessary, but where the deciding authority relies on a later statement addressing contested facts, the parties must be able to comment on it. The statement was not even served on the complainant, so the minimum constitutional standard was not met.