The seven men fighting extradition to the United States to face drug charges will have to wait until February 28 to learn if their constitutional rights were violated. <\/p>\n
Trevor Roberts, Sheldon Moore, Brian and Lynden Deal, Devroy Moss, Shanto Curry and Gordon Newbold appeared before Magistrate Carolita Bethel on Monday, expecting a report from the Chief Justice on a number of constitutional infringement issues.<\/p>\n
According to the Magistrate Bethel, Chief Justice Sir Burton Hall informed her that he had assigned a Supreme Court judge to the case and that a report would be ready for review within 30 days. <\/p>\n
She remanded the men to Her Majesty’s Prison until then.<\/p>\n
The defence attorneys, Paul Moss, Maurice Glinton and Jerome Roberts, are challenging the Listening Devices Act, which gives the Commissioner of Police the authority to permit recordings of private conversations.<\/p>\n
They are also questioning the validity of the men’s arrest, based on the stipulations in the search warrants.<\/p>\n
Magistrate Bethel ruled earlier this month that the telephone recordings of the seven men were admissible as evidence, shooting down arguments to the contrary by the men’s attorneys.<\/p>\n
An earlier ruling of the Supreme Court had determined that the extradition treaty between the Bahamas and The United States was null and void.<\/p>\n
But that was overturned by the court of appeal with lawyers attempting to have the Privy Council grant a stay of the Appellate court’s decision.<\/p>\n
By: Stephen Gay, The Bahama Journal<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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