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spend the next two years behind bars.
After mulling the fate overnight of 30-year-old career criminal Richard Michael Dill, Chief Justice Austin Ward on Friday said despite "strong'' arguments from Dill's lawyer Elizabeth Christopher for probation ra...
DATE: Jul 05, 1999
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Five people faced drug importation charges in the Supreme Court arraignment session on Thursday.
Steven Answorth Petgrave, 24, a restaurant worker from New York, will be sentenced on July 12 after he admitted importing $184,000 of crack cocaine weigh...
DATE: Jul 03, 1999
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Two years after first appearing in court, murder accused 26-year-old Jermaine Noel Pearman and manslaughter accused 19-year-old Sharina Anne Tuzo will be tried on September 13.
The couple have denied causing the death of her infant godson Saed Young ...
DATE: Jul 02, 1999
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Young people under the age of 16 can be fingerprinted, Magistrate Carlisle Greaves has ruled.
But a hearing has been delayed until next month as to whether the three juveniles accused of setting Harrington Sound School on fire should be fingerprinted...
DATE: Jul 01, 1999
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A magistrate has given a Hamilton Parish man until the end of next year to pay a $4,900 fine accrued in several traffic violations.
Senior Magistrate Will Francis told Dean Sinclair Burgess the country takes a dim view of drunk driving, riding withou...
DATE: Jun 23, 1999
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Biting the hand that fed him has earned a crack addict a one-year prison sentence.
Senior Magistrate Will Francis threw the book at Clifton Fredrick Weller after hearing he beat 80-year-old Eugene Todd in his bedroom and robbed him of $700.
Mr. Franc...
DATE: Jun 23, 1999
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from a two-storey building to escape Police.
Police yesterday said the unidentified woman jumped from the Ministry of Telecommunications' Golinsky Building on Reid Street, after climbing a wall in an exercise area of Hamilton Police Station.
The woma...
DATE: Jun 23, 1999
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A call by Senior Magistrate Will Francis to let certain speeders avoid court has been blasted by the chairperson of the Road Safety Council.
Delcina Bean Burrows said yesterday she was not in favour of Mr. Francis' call for a change in the law to cha...
DATE: Jun 22, 1999
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A retrial has been ordered by the Court of Appeal in the case against a Sandys Parish man convicted of sexually abusing a young girl.
The court found Magistrate Edward King erred in accepting a medical expert's testimony supporting the victim when th...
DATE: Jun 18, 1999
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A visiting couple fell more than 200 feet into the sea after their para-sail disconnected from their tow boat.
The couple were not physically hurt. But they complained that their treatment by Skyrider Bermuda in Dockyard left much to be desired.
Ariz...
DATE: Jun 15, 1999
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