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Momodou
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 Posted - 06 Mar 2007 : 12:39:41
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MAGISTRATE ADVISES PROSECUTORS
By Modou Jonga
Magistrate Edrissa Fafa M'bai of the Brikama Magistrates' Court has expressed his view over prosecutors who at times in his court, fail to proceed with cases and or to prove their cases beyond reasonable doubts.
Magistrate M'bai made these remarks on Wednesday after the adjournment of a case assigned to another prosecutor who transferred his case to his colleague. Magistrate M'bai said that the said case was unable to proceed for quite a while now (for more than two months).
Magistrate M'bai further said that despite the inability of the prosecution to proceed with their cases and prove their cases beyond reasonable doubt, the accused persons he discharged are often re-arrested by the police. This, Magistrate M'bai asserted, amounts to 'challenging the court and abusing the law.' He said that the re-arrest is a result of the prosecutor's dissatisfaction of the said discharges.
Magistrate M'bai thus urged the prosecutors to be willing to proceed with cases that are before his court and be resolved to prove their cases beyond all reasonable doubts.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 026/2007, 5-6 March, 2007
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