{"id":15984,"date":"2011-12-08T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15984"},"modified":"2011-12-08T10:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:15:13","slug":"corrupt-bahamian-cop-loses-extradition-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/12\/corrupt-bahamian-cop-loses-extradition-appeal","title":{"rendered":"Corrupt Bahamian Cop Loses Extradition Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13003\" title=\"corrupt-police\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/corrupt-police1-250x187.jpg\" alt=\"corrupt law enforcement officials\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/corrupt-police1-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/corrupt-police1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/corrupt-police1.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>The  Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a lower court\u2019s decision to deny a man  fighting extradition the right to cross-examine his accuser.<\/p>\n<p>Police Constable Nyahuma Bastian is wanted in South Texas for the  alleged rape and assault of a former girlfriend on April 26, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Bastian and his alleged victim were both students at the University of North Texas when the incident allegedly took place.<\/p>\n<p>Bastian, who was on $120,000 bail, absconded and returned to The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>He joined the police force on his return to the country and was  arrested on an extradition warrant when he reported for duty at the  Central Detective Unit on June 17, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Bastian\u2019s lawyer, Murrio Ducille, raised a preliminary objection when  extradition proceedings were due to start before Magistrate Guillimina  Archer.\u00a0 Ducille argued that Bastian had a constitutional right to  question his accuser.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing submissions from Ducille and prosecutor Neil  Brathwaite, Archer ruled that Bastian did not have a right to  cross-examine the alleged victim.<\/p>\n<p>Ducille then filed an application before Senior Justice Jon Isaacs,  challenging the decision of the magistrate.\u00a0 Isaacs dismissed the  application at the conclusion of the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal panel of President\u2008Anita Allen and Justices of  Appeal Christopher Blackman and Stanley John dismissed an appeal of  Isaacs\u2019 decision.<\/p>\n<p>Ducille reportedly plans to make a final challenge to the Privy Council.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Source: The Nassau Guardian<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A corrupt Bahamian police officer and his attorney have lost an appeal to stop the cop&#8217;s extradition to the United States, where he jumped bail and is wanted for rape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,32,38,113],"class_list":["post-15984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-courts","tag-police","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}