General News of Monday, 4 July 2022
Source: www.ghanaweb.live
2022-07-04Major Mahama murder trial: Court orders 14 suspects to open their defence
The late Major Maxwell Mahama
Denkyira Obuasi assemblyman to stand trial for Major Mahama’s murder
Prosecution of Major Mahama’s murder suspects to commence
Major Mahama trial: Court throws out submission of no case
A High Court in Accra has ordered people suspected to be involved in the murder of Major Maxwell Mahama to file their defence.
This comes after the court quashed
Read full articlean application for no case made by lawyers for the 14 accused persons, including the assemblyman for Denkyira Obuasi, William Baah.
According to the lawyers for the suspects, the prosecution has failed to make a compelling case against their clients, citinewsroom.com reports.
They added that the prosecution’s case has failed to implicate any of the suspects, which implies that they have to be set free.
However, one of the presiding judges of the case, Justice of the Supreme Court, Her Lordship Mariama Owusu, rejected the submission of the defence.
She indicated that the prosecution made a strong case against the suspects on the charges of intentionally causing harm to and murdering Major Maxwell Mahama.
Her Lordship Owusu, therefore, overruled the submission of no case by the lawyers of the accused persons and ordered them to file their defence.
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