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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by toubab1020[/i] [br]By Bruce Asemota January 31, 2020 Two men, Moses Ukweni and Kemo Korteh, were yesterday freed by Justice Ebrima Jaiteh of the High Court in Banjul. The matter involving the two suspects was expected to proceed when the court was notified that there were no witnesses and the state counsel was absent while the defence counsel, Patience Chandria, was present. The court was in receipt of a letter from State Counsel Saihou Ceesay asking for an adjournment on the ground that the state was having difficulty in securing witnesses. Defence Counsel Chandria objected to the application for an adjournment on the ground that the state was not ready and willing to prosecute the case and pointed out to the court that the accused were held in custody for over seven months without trial. She argued that their continuous detention without the prosecution calling a single witness to commence the trial was a fundamental breach of their constitutional right to be tried within a reasonable time and urged the court to strike out the case and discharge the accused persons until such a time that the state is ready to prosecute them. In his ruling, the judge noted that accused persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty. He agreed with the defence counsel that the continuous detention of the men for over seven months without trial was a fundamental breach of their constitutional right to be tried within a reasonable time and consequently refused the application for an adjournment and discharged the suspects forthwith from remanded custody. https://standard.gm/judge-frees-2-accused-of-rape/ [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.