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His mother may be paying his fine but Ramon Jamal Payne will be made to sign an agreement saying he will be repaying her every cent.
If he doesn’t follow through with that obligation, he could face prison.
So said Justice Randall Worrell as Payne, of Boscobel, St Peter, returned to the No. 2 Supreme Court yesterday.
He had pleaded guilty, at an earlier Session of the Continuous Sittings, to having a 9 mm pistol and nine bullets on April 25, 2017.
The matter was prosecuted by Senior Crown Counsel Olivia Davis, while Angella Mitchell-Gittens represented the gunman. (HLE)
Crown, defence argue convicted Nelson Street killer’s sentencing
Article by May 15, 2021
If Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale gets his way, convicted killer Ryan Omar Samuel “would not be able to lift a gun” by the time he is released from prison, the High Court heard on Friday.
And Seale contended that a recent ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) supported his call for Samuel to be incarcerated for 25 to 35 years for his “heinous” killing of Charley Dume over seven years ago.
Samuel, of Grape Hall, St Lucy, was found guilty of manslaughter in the April 26, 2014 shooting death of the 25-year-old Dume in Coyote’s Den Bar, Nelson Street, The City.
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Convicted attorney Cheraine Nicole Parris thinks her four-year sentence for bilking a former client out of her money is unreasonable.
That is the one ground of the appeal she has filed with the Court of Appeal.
It was back in September that Justice Randall Worrell sentenced the lawyer, of Lowlands, Christ Church, to four years in jail for stealing $302 000 belonging to Ashleigh Morrison, between April 15 and August 20, 2010.
She had originally been charged with stealing $462 000 but was indicted for the lesser amount after she repaid the difference.
Parris also admitted engaging in money laundering in that she disposed of $302 000, between April 15 and August 16, 2010, being the proceeds of crime. (HLE)
May 13, 2021
In-person jury trials are set to return to the High Courts from June 1, Justice Randall Worrell disclosed Wednesday.
The judge made the comment as he dealt with a case which will reportedly go the route of a trial.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, most cases on the High Court’s docket were being conducted virtually via the Zoom platform. There were also a number of cases that were also done at the Supreme Court complex in Whitepark Road. But the pandemic halted cases that needed to be heard before judge and jury.
Attorney General Dale Marshall in a recent interview with
‘Fear’ made detainee run from lawmen
Article by May 12, 2021
Defence attorney Samuel Legay has urged a High Court Judge to show some leniency to his client who he said fled from police back in 2016 simply “out of fear”.
Legay was mitigating on behalf of St Philip resident Andrew Melvin Franklyn who had pleaded guilty to escaping from the Oistins Police Station without the use of force and assaulting constables Joseph Green and Rakem Gunning in the process on August 25, 2016.
The lawyer explained that Franklyn is known to the courts for theft, assault, criminal damage and burglary and was familiar with the police process.