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Drug dealers’ walks free after police fail to produce exhibit

Jun 10, 2013 News

Three men who were before the court jointly on cocaine and marijuana charges were all freed after the police failed to produce the necessary exhibits.
The men, Gordon Bruce called ‘Joe’, 26, a father of two of 18 St John Street, Christopher Chatterpaul, 25, a taxi driver of Smythfield and David Leung Awah, 36, of Kent Street all of New Amsterdam, Berbice,  were charged with  being in possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.  They were allegedly found with two grams of cocaine and two grams of marijuana on January 16, 2013 and subsequently appeared in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo.
The prosecution’s case was that on the day in question, the police raided the house at St. John Street New Amsterdam and found the trio in a room. The room was searched and a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine was found wrapped in a plastic bag in a corner. Further searches unearthed what looked like leaves, seeds and stems of the marijuana plant.
The men were arrested and taken into custody. The items were tested and weighed and found to be portions of the marijuana plant.
In court they were placed on $100,000 bail on the cocaine charge and $25,000 on the marijuana charge each.
During the trial the men were represented at various stages by Attorneys at law Charrandass Persaud and Mursaline Bacchus. At the conclusion of the prosecution’s case, the police failed to produce the exhibits. The defence in their no case submissions had argued that there was no case for the men to answer as there was no proof that the men had anything, because no exhibits were presented to the court in the matter and that the men should be set free.
The Magistrate concurred with the defence’s submissions and freed the men.

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