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Government would be sending the “wrong message” if it chooses to appeal a recent court decision to award a man who was wrongly imprisoned for a decade close to $2 million.That is the view of attorney-at-law, King’s Counsel Larry Smith, who has called on the State to pay Frank Gibson the monies owed him.“Should the State consider appealing this award, my concern would be the message sent to us as a society about the State’s willingness to go for the jugular of a poor, innocent, black man who has endured great suffering at the State’s own hands. Throughout, there has been this sense of an old colonial authoritarian system saying, innocent or not, you cannot win,” the lawyer said.His comments have come following last week’s decision by Justice Pamela Beckles to award Gibson $1.8 million in damages after she agreed that his constitutional rights were breached. ....

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