According to applications filed with the Supreme Court registry, Dwight Major is insisting that he cannot have a fair trial in the drugs court and has made “serious allegations” aganist the magistrate of that court.
On Major’s behalf, his lawyers Michael Kemp and Donna Major filed applications with the Supreme Court Registry for a stay of the proceedings before Magistrate Carolita Bethell.
The lawyers claim to have been told by an officer of the Registry that no judge would take the case.
While the Registry would neither confirm nor deny whether this claim was accurate, an officer did tell The Tribune yesterday that the motion was filed and to date they are still awaiting a response from the Supreme Court Justices.
It is Dwight Major’s constitutional right to be heard, his lawyers said.
Major’s allegations listed in the Supreme Court application state, in part, that on February 25, 2005 Magistrate Bethell, “…accused attorney Willie Moss Jr. of having manufactured and back dated documents. This clearly shows the bias state of the mind of the learned judge.”
Major’s application went on to claim that Magistrate Bethell “has ordered stenographers repeatedly to omit portions of my testimony and arguments put forward by my attorneys.”
The application went on to claim that Bethell “made herself a part of the case on numerous occasions.”
Major and his wife are scheduled to appear before Justice Jon Isaacs today on a habeas corpus application, as they are seeking to be released from prison.
Source: the Tribune
