{"id":9682,"date":"2011-06-27T08:24:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T12:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2011-06-27T08:24:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T12:24:28","slug":"court-president-director-of-public-prosecutions-criticized-by-appeal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/06\/court-president-director-of-public-prosecutions-criticized-by-appeal-court","title":{"rendered":"Court President, Director of Public Prosecutions Criticized By Appeal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director of Public Prosecutions Vinette Graham-Allen has been ordered to  appear in the Court of Appeal today after coming under fire for  claiming the court had erred in a judgment, a charge the court claimed  was &#8220;baseless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Graham-Allen was criticised yesterday for misleading the appellate  court in making an urgent application for leave to appeal a judgment in  the case of former death row inmate Godfrey Sawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Graham-Allen and prosecutor Jillian Williams, who signed the notice  of motion, have been ordered to appear in court at 2:00pm today to explain  the circumstances under which the application was made on April 19.<\/p>\n<p>The court handed down its written judgment in Sawyer&#8217;s case yesterday,  more than three months after having quashed his murder and armed robbery  convictions and ordering that he be retried for manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>In a related story, the Court of Appeal has also said that Appeal  Court president Anita Allen&#8217;s failure to a give an &#8220;objective&#8221; summary  of the evidence during the murder trial of Godfrey       Sawyer resulted  in a &#8220;miscarriage of justice&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of Public Prosecutions Vinette Graham-Allen has been ordered to appear in the Court of Appeal today after coming under fire for claiming the court had erred in a judgment, a charge the court claimed was &#8220;baseless.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[32,142,49],"class_list":["post-9682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-courts","tag-incompetence","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}