More legal shenanigans and delays in the Bishop Randy Fraser sex trial.<\/p>\n
Fraser will appear in court a third time this week as lawyers and the judge try to fix a date for the continuation of his trial.<\/p>\n
The disgraced bishop is accused of having sex with a teenage member of his Pilgrim Baptist Church, on St. James Road, who had come to him for counseling.<\/p>\n
Fraser abused his position of trust by coercing the girl into having sex while he was supposed to have been counseling her.<\/p>\n
Fraser’s lawyer, Wayne Munroe, has tried every legal trick in the book to delay and\/or thwart the trial, from not being available for trial dates, to filing a motion for dismissal based on the ridiculous assertion that each time Fraser had sex with the girl needed to be filed as a separate case.<\/p>\n
Exercising a rare example of wisdom, Magistrate Bethel determined that there was enough evidence for Fraser to stand trial and rejected Munroe’s silly “no case to answer” submission earlier this month.<\/p>\n
So, all that remains is to set a date for the trial.\u00a0 Easier said than done.<\/p>\n
Magistrate Bethel wants to wrap this up before the end of the year. However, lawyer Munroe and prosecutor Franklyn Williams can not seem to agree on a date when both would be availabe for Fraser, who plans to call 25 defence witnesses, to waste the court’s time for three days in a row.<\/p>\n
Magistrate Bethel said, “I have made three attempts, wasted my time yesterday morning, yesterday afternoon and today.<\/p>\n
“Now we are going to get me three days this year before the middle of December. “This is an old criminal trial, and I would like it dealt with as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n
This is Fraser’s second trial. The Court of Appeal ordered a retrial after finding another – allegedly corrupt – magistrate exercised the wrong legal principle in ruling that Fraser did not have to enter a defense to the charge.<\/p>\n
One wonders… if Fraser were sitting in Fox Hill prison while waiting for trial, if things wouldn’t move along a bit faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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