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The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has dismissed a number of appeals which it heard in Dominica the week ending Oct 4, 2019.<\/p>\n
Kerwin Prosper who appealed his magisterial criminal sentence for stealing withdrew that appeal telling the court that he was \u201cno longer interested in the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former police officer Levi Maximea who has had a long legal battle against the Chief of Police and also the Dominica Agricultural Industrial and Development Bank (AID) Bank had both his appeals dismissed because he appealed \u201cout of time\u201d.<\/p>\n
In his matter against the Chief of Police, the solicitor general told the court that they were \u201cnot opposed\u201d to his appeal to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) but it was found that he had applied \u201cout of time\u201d and the Court of Appeal does not have the jurisdiction pursuant to CCJ Rules Section 10:3-1 to hear his appeal since it was \u201cout of time.\u201d His AID Bank matter also suffered the same fate.<\/p>\n
Roger George whose death sentence was commuted to \u201clife in prison\u201d by the Court of Appeal also had his application dismissed. He was asking the court to review his sentence as \u201ctime served\u201d.<\/p>\n
In 2000 the court of appeal allowed his appeal and commuted it to \u201cman slaughter\u201d and gave him a sentence of \u201clife in jail.\u201d<\/p>\n
The court of appeal told his lawyer that \u201cwe have no jurisdiction to review a decision of a different constituted Court of Appeal.\u201d His appeal was dismissed.<\/p>\n
Brad Matthew who was sentenced to 3 years in jail for theft after hurricane Maria told the court that his sentence was \u201charsh.\u201d<\/p>\n
But a review of his rap sheet showed that he had several convictions of \u201ctheft\u201d dating back to 2011.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou stole when people were down and out, we are not seeing anywhere, the Magistrate went wrong, you got a sentence based on your character, the magistrate did well in the circumstances, you will be out soon, go and reflect on how to live a better life,\u201d the judges told him. His appeal was also dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has dismissed a number of appeals which it heard in Dominica the week ending Oct 4, 2019. Kerwin Prosper who appealed his magisterial criminal sentence for stealing withdrew that appeal telling the court that he…","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":235923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[77,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n