2 years ago
Previous Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has scrutinized the way in which the #FixTheCountry Development lead convener, Oliver Barker-Vormawor was charged with treachery lawful offense by the Police.
Concurring to the previous Lawyer-Common, charging Mr Barker-Vormawor with conspiracy lawful offense on his to begin with appearance in court is an unconstitutional and unethical snare.
He included that it was an “mishandle of the investigatory and prosecutorial caution of the official department of government in advising the suspect and his attorneys for the primary time within the court room.”
He said the nature of the charge within the courtroom indeed “stunned Mr. Akoto Ampaw, the attorney driving the suspect’s protection group, to the degree that he is cited by the Every day Realistic Online of 14 February 2022 to have said that: “Until this morning [Monday], it was a misdemeanour, as it were to seem in court and be told he is being charged with conspiracy crime which has no genuine premise.”
“On 14 February 2022, when Mr. Barker-Vormawor was shockingly brought some time recently a Area Court for the misdemeanour and rundown offense of hostile conduct conducive to breaches of the peace, the reasons for his capture and detainment changed within the court room.
“His legal counselors and him learnt for the primary time within the court that he had been brought some time recently the Court on a charge of treachery crime beneath segment 182(b) of the Criminal Offenses Act, 1960 (Act 29) for which the court had no bailable powers,” he famous.
Agreeing to the previous Extraordinary Prosecutor, “Mr Akoto Ampaw pondered why the arraignment, which at first charged BarkerVormawor for hostile conduct conducive to the breach of the peace, which may be a misdemeanour and went ahead to require a explanation from him would appear up in court with the charge of conspiracy crime.”
In the mean time, the Lawyer-Common says the police agents have accumulated prove to support the charge of conspiracy lawful offense recorded against #FixTheCountry Development lead convener Oliver Barker-Vormawor.
Godfred Lady, in archives recorded at the Tema Tall Court on his sake, said, “That opposite to the averments in passage 7 of the testimony in bolster, the prove accumulated so distant by the police can maintain a charge of treachery lawful offense.”
This shapes portion of contentions progressed by the Lawyer-Common against a safeguard ask. Be that as it may, Mr Barker-Vormawor, who is said to be unwell, has put in an application for safeguard through his attorneys.
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