{"id":26001,"date":"2012-09-24T09:14:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T13:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=26001"},"modified":"2012-09-24T09:15:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T13:15:49","slug":"no-show-witnesses-in-brans-death-threat-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/09\/no-show-witnesses-in-brans-death-threat-case","title":{"rendered":"No-Show Witnesses In Bran&#8217;s Death Threat Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-748\" title=\"branville-mccartney-250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/branville-mccartney-250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/branville-mccartney-250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/branville-mccartney-250-137x150.jpg 137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Witnesses in a high-profile death threat case were no-shows for the trial when two men were accused of making threats against then Bamboo Town parliamentarian Branville McCartney.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the absence of the witnesses, Court No.6 Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans said there would be no further adjournments after October 29, the new date for the trial.<\/p>\n<p>The Magistrate said that the prosecution must bring its case on that date or 35-year-old Mighty Sparticus Moncur and 31-year-old Livingston Bullar Jr would be discharged.<\/p>\n<p>Moncur of Seven Hills and Bullard Jr of Sir Lynden Pindling Estates are accused of making threats on April 28, 2011 to kill McCartney and Dereka Miller.<\/p>\n<p>It is claimed that the men went to McCartney\u2019s law firm and threatened to kill the then-parliamentarian. A threat was also made against Miller, McCartney\u2019s employee.<\/p>\n<p>The two accused were arraigned in Magistrate\u2019s Court a week later on the two counts of threats of death. The case was adjourned to May 16, 2011 for a trial date to be set in Court No.6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses in a high-profile death threat case were no-shows for the trial against two men accused of making kill-threats against then Bamboo Town parliamentarian Branville McCartney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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],"class_list":["post-26001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26001","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}