Man gets 12-year jail term for attempted murder
By Rana Husseini - Aug 04,2021 - Last updated at Aug 04,2021
AMMAN The Cassation Court has upheld a January Criminal Court ruling sentencing a man to 12 years in prison after convicting him of attempting to murder a man and a woman in Mafraq in April 2019.
The Criminal Court declared the defendant guilty of attempted murder, stemming from “a heated dispute” with the victims, on April 22. The defendant was given the maximum sentence.
Court papers said that the defendant had an old feud with the victim’s family and headed to their house to “discuss the matter”.
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Man gets six months in jail for drug possession
By Rana Husseini - Jul 26,2021 - Last updated at Jul 27,2021
AMMAN The Court of Cassation has upheld a March State Security Court (SSC) ruling, reducing the sentence of a university student convicted of possessing illegal narcotics in Amman in November of last year.
The court declared the defendant guilty of possessing illegal narcotics and handed him an 18-month prison term and JD1,500 in fines.
However, the court decided to reduce the sentence to six months in prison and JD500 in fines “because the defendant is completing his higher studies in Saudi Arabia and would lose his residency”.
2 foreign nationals jailed for murder
By Rana Husseini - Jul 04,2021 - Last updated at Jul 04,2021
AMMAN The Court of Cassation has upheld a June Criminal Court ruling to sentence two Egyptian men to 20 years in prison after convicting them of murdering their colleague in April 2019.
The court declared the defendants guilty of killing the 42-year-old victim with a brick in mid-April and handed them the maximum punishment.
Court papers said the defendants were friends because they were day labourers.
“The two defendants engaged in a heated argument few weeks before the incident and the victim broke the teeth of one of the men following a scuffle,” court papers said.