THE office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has not as yet received the relevant files to appoint a State attorney to prosecute the police officer who was possibly the first person to be remanded into prison custody for 120 days in accordance with the recently-passed Bail (Amendment) Act 2015. PC Lorenzo Lezama, 31,reappeared…
Derek Achong Lawyers representing the 11 men accused of murdering Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal have accused State prosecutors of delaying their case. During their brief hearing in the Port-of-Spain Magistrate’s Court yesterday, attorney Criston J Williams, who is representing reputed gang leader Rajaee Ali and most of the other accused men, claimed that after close…
A retrial has been ordered. In his appeal argued by attorneys Jagdeo Singh, Criston J Williams and Rhea Libert, Supersad complained of the judge’s handling of the case. Five grounds of appeal were filed on Supersad’s behalf, arguing that a material irregularity occurred at the trial when the judge allowed the prosecution to place mere…
The killing of Sylvan Alexis sparked fiery protests in Enterprise. Three days ago the arrest of several residents of the area also led to protests in the Longdenville area. Kerron Alexis, his father and another man appeared in court in April last year, charged with participating in a riot by throwing missiles. He was placed…
Sea Lots resident Kenneth Browne and his ex-wife Melissa Browne, of Carenage, returned to the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday before Deputy Chief Magistrate Maria Busby Earle-Caddle accused of committing the capital offence sometime between March 8 and March 16 at Sea Lots. Kenneth Browne, who is also the father of Joseph’s four-year-old daughter,…
THE Laventille man charged by police with being in possession of some of the ransom money paid for the safe release of San Fernando businessman Gregory Laing was yesterday refused bail when he appeared before a Port of Spain magistrate. The accused, 29-year-old Jesten Superville, stood before acting Chief Magistrate Maria Busby Earle-Caddle in the…
Fraud accused Vicky Boodram returned briefly to the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday before her case was adjourned to March 21. Boodram stood alongside her estranged husband Ravi Arjoonsingh, before acting deputy Chief Magistrate Nanette Forde-John. Forde-John was holding for her colleague Christine Charles, who is presiding over Boodram’s case but is now assigned…
Despite the filing of a no case submission form yesterday on behalf of murder-accused, Shawn Coa aka ‘Devil’, a Port of Spain Magistrate ruled that there was sufficient evidence in the matter for him to stand trial. Coa’s attorney, Criston J Williams filed the form yesterday citing irregularities in the testimony of witnesses and inconsistencies…
SENIOR Magistrate Indrani Cedeno has dismissed an application that was made by a defence attorney in the Dana Seetahal murder inquiry for her to step down from further presiding over the matter on the ground of apparent bias. Cedeno delivered her ruling on the application at the Hall of Justice in Port of Spain yesterday,…
Derek Achong A 21-year-old Venezuelan woman, who was charged with firearm and ammunition possession after her friend was killed in an alleged shootout with police in March, has been freed. Magistrate Rehanna Hosein dismissed the charges against Monika Jerez-Gonzalez during a hearing in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Hosein’s decision was based on complaints from…
