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Judge rules: State fails to prove 2012 case, so man acquitted
Justice Carla Brown-Antoine. -
A TRINIDADIAN who was among four men – two of them Venezuelans – arrested in 2012 after the Coast Guard discovered five guns and a kilogramme of cocaine on board a pirogue, has been acquitted by a High Court judge.
On Wednesday, Justice Carla Brown-Antoine held that the State failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Bisham Ramlogan was in possession of five firearms, ammunition and cocaine found on the pirogue Sham on November 27, 2012.
In a written decision following a judge-only trial, Brown-Antoine said she was of the view that the evidence of the prosecution was “unsatisfactory,” and did not satisfy the court that Ramlogan was the captain or master of the pirogue.