{"id":46704,"date":"2014-01-16T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/man-cleared-of-armed-robbery-and-kidnapping"},"modified":"2014-01-16T10:21:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:21:02","slug":"man-cleared-of-armed-robbery-and-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/01\/man-cleared-of-armed-robbery-and-kidnapping","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Lets Another Criminal Go Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man walked out of Supreme Court free yesterday when his case \u2013 involving seven charges of armed robbery and one charge of kidnapping \u2013 was discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>The eight charges against 30-year-old Baillou Hill Road resident Dudley Johnson were dropped when a prosecutor presented a nolle prosequi signed by the Attorney General asking that the matter be discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the document, Justice Indra Charles informed the accused that the case against him was being discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>However, the judge told the accused that the Crown, if it chose to, could bring the matter back to court at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who denied the charges against him, was accused of robbing seven persons on November 6 and 8, 2009 and kidnapping one of the alleged robbery victims.<\/p>\n<p>Undetermined amounts of cash, cell phones, jewellery, and a Mitsubishi Lancer were the goods Johnson was accused of stealing.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h48894-p10\">Johnson was represented by attorney Terrel Butler. Uel Johnson appeared for the Crown.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/tribune242.com\/news\/2014\/jan\/15\/man-cleared-of-armed-robbery-and-kidnapping\/\" target=\"_blank\">tribune242.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allyson Maynard-Gibson, who was criticized last year for inexplicably allowing a nolle prosequi in a gun case, has now also stopped proceedings against a  man who was charged with 7 armed robberies.  Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[93,32,31,40],"class_list":["post-46704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46704","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}