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Marijuana activist fined $6,000 for possession, cultivation
Nazma Muller
MARIJUANA ACTIVIST Nazma Muller has been fined $6,000 for possession of more than 400 grammes of marijuana and cultivation of the dangerous drug.
Arima magistrate Brambhanan Dubay fined Muller at a virtual hearing on Thursday. She pleaded guilty to the two charges.
She was arrested on September 9, last year, when Northern Division police said they got information that led them to her home at Second Street East, Trincity.
There they found marijuana plants, nurseries, and 435 grammes of dried and cured marijuana.
She was represented by attorney Daniel Khan.
In his plea of mitigation, Khan said Muller did not commit the offences for financial gain. He also said she did not resist when police came to her home to execute a warrant, and had shown them what she had in her possession. She also allegedly told them she had “these to give away” for her birthday the next day, and said she smoked marijuana because
Two jailed for killing elderly man
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Derek Achong
Two men from Carenage have been sentenced to a total of 51 years in prison for their roles in murdering an elderly man, who attempted to intervene while they were carjacking a taxi driver.
Travis “Footprint” Williams and Leston “Bummie” Solomon pleaded guilty to felony murder in November, last year, but only received their sentences from High Court Judge Althea Alexis-Windsor on Tuesday.
Under the felony murder rule the mandatory death penalty for murder is waived in circumstances where death results during the commission of a lesser criminal offence, which in most cases is robbery.
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Dear Editor: Khan calling for the death penalty is engaging in doublethink
“[…] Mr Khan must know of the hundreds of people missing and presumed dead in T&T. Those are counted by the population as homicides. No perpetrators have been found. The hangman’s noose swings empty and idle.
“… Mr Khan must know that in the finding of guilt, the criminal justice system must first find a person to prosecute, and then be robust enough to navigate all technicalities in the law, to deliver justice.”
The following Letter to the Editor responds to a guest column advocating for the death penalty written by Israel Khan. This letter was submitted to Wired868 by Mohan Ramcharan, a legal advisor in Birmingham, England: