{"id":23358,"date":"2012-07-03T08:35:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T12:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=23358"},"modified":"2012-07-03T08:35:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T12:35:48","slug":"missing-transcripts-delay-police-bribery-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/07\/missing-transcripts-delay-police-bribery-trial","title":{"rendered":"Missing Transcripts Delay Police Bribery Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Justice system fails again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Magistrate Guillimina Archer adjourned the bribery case of Bryan Dillett, a policeman, and Anthony Rolle, a civilian, almost a year ago for a decision on a no case to answer submission.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors allege that Rolle offered Dillett a bribe to do away with a traffic accident report.<\/p>\n

However, the magistrate was forced to postpone the case once again last month because she still had not been able to review the evidence in the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stenographers\u2019 notes are still outstanding. I made a request; they are still not forthcoming,\u201d Archer said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what to say. I am told the stenographers who took the evidence are in the Supreme Court, which takes precedence to the magistrate\u2019s court.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case has now been adjourned to September 19.<\/p>\n

Archer said she was mindful of the hardship that Dillett, who has been placed on half pay, has experienced as a result of the delay<\/p>\n

However, his is not an isolated case. His lawyer Ian Cargill said postponements caused by unavailable transcripts are a frequent occurrence.<\/p>\n

Romona Farquharson, who appears for Rolle, said the slow turnaround in the production of transcripts \u201ccauses expense to both the court and to the defendant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Artesia Davis,
\nThe Nassau Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bribery case of Bryan Dillett, a policeman, and Anthony Rolle, a civilian has been postponed further due to the continued delay of the stenographer’s notes which were requested over a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[151,231,38],"class_list":["post-23358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-court","tag-justice","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23358","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}