{"id":26506,"date":"2012-10-03T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=26506"},"modified":"2012-10-03T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T13:28:05","slug":"murder-acquittal-overturned-new-trial-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/10\/murder-acquittal-overturned-new-trial-ordered","title":{"rendered":"Murder Acquittal Overturned, New Trial Ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14606\" title=\"gavel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gavel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gavel.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gavel-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The Court of Appeal on Monday overturned the acquittal of a man who faced a murder charge for allegedly running over a man with his car.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrone Francis, who is on bail, will now face another trial for the murder of Jonathan Linden.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors alleged that Francis used his vehicle as a deadly weapon when he knocked down Linden on October 9, 2009, shortly after they had an argument at Royal Castle on Baillou Hill Road.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Justice Vera Watkins directed the jury to acquit Francis when she ruled that the prosecution had failed to produce evidence to support the charge.<\/p>\n<p>The judge directed the acquittal 11 days after the Court of Appeal Amendment Act became law on November 4, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment gives prosecutors the right to challenge a judge\u2019s decision to uphold a no case submission or withdraw a case from the jury at the close of the prosecution\u2019s case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal overturned the acquittal of a man charged with murdering another by using his vehicle as a deadly weapon.<\/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":[151,31,49],"class_list":["post-26506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26506","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=26506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}