When Archer returned to a Freeport Magistrate court yesterday morning for the continuation of his preliminary inquiry, the prosecution, which closed its case yesterday, was not able to establish a prima facie case against him and he was granted dismissal on those grounds by Magistrate Helen Jones. <\/p>\n
Shurland said he is very pleased with the outcome of the Inquiry, which started back in April, 2006. <\/p>\n
According to reports, around 12:45 a.m. on Tuesday, October 4, 2005 police received several calls from residents in the Somerville Drive neighbourhood, who reported hearing gunshots being fired. <\/p>\n
Uniformed and plainclothes officers who responded found Martin lying face-up on the ground, just inside the gate of his front yard, suffering from gunshot wounds to his face, neck and torso. <\/p>\n
Martin succumbed to injuries several days later. <\/p>\n
Police believe that the shooting was a drug-related matter because officers recovered a quantity of cocaine from the scene. <\/p>\n
Archer initially was represented by attorney K. Brian Hanna and was originally charged with attempted murder, but after Martin’s death the charge was upgraded. <\/p>\n
In other news from the courts, 35-year-old Ashley Allen Grant of #126 Cabot Drive pleaded guilty to possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. <\/p>\n
Grant, who appeared before Magistrate Subu Lasalle was fined $6,000 or two years imprisonment on each count.<\/p>\n
By ANGELO ARMBRISTER, Freeport News Reporter<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thomas Kim Archer, the man charged with the shooting death of 55-year-old Philip Martin, is a free man today after his lawyer Carlson Shurland got him off on a no case submission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243690","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}