{"id":43890,"date":"2011-09-14T13:55:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T17:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=43890"},"modified":"2011-09-14T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T20:24:55","slug":"mendes-probes-as-more-witnesses-testify-in-election-petition-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/crime-court-law\/mendes-probes-as-more-witnesses-testify-in-election-petition-court-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendes probes as more witnesses testify in election petition court case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43891\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43891\" title=\"douglas mendez\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/douglas-mendez-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"214\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mendes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two witnesses for the petitioners and four witnesses for the respondents took the stand during this morning&#8217;s session as the election petition matter involving Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt and Education Minister Petter St. Jean continued.<\/p>\n<p>Fredrickson Sylvain claimed that he had distributed part of the 1,000-1,200 copies of the Notice of Disqualification that were circulated in the Vielle Case constituency, despite the assertion of Senior Counsel Anthony Astaphan to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>Also taking the stand for the petitioners was Desmond Thomas before the two sides agreed that the remaining witness statements would be admitted into evidence as they were. All that except for that of Felix Prosper, who is expected to be in court on Friday to be cross-examined, since he is coming from abroad to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Like a riveting hour of cricket in an otherwise quiet test match morning, the cross-examination of Jenner Guiste, a witness for the respondents, by Douglas Mendes, the petitioners&#8217; attorney, breathed some entertainment into the proceedings. Mendes delivered inquiries that probed and tested but Guiste was defensive and managed to navigate them with some success.<\/p>\n<p>Guiste admitted to the court that he had only attended two United Workers Party meetings but his witness statement said he had attended &#8220;a number&#8221; of them. Mendes suggested that he had exaggerated this statement.<\/p>\n<p>Guiste testified to having received a leaflet from a Dominica Labor Party supporter, outlining reasons that the La Plaine public should not vote for St. Jean. The document itself never mentioned St. Jean by name and Mendes inquired as to which part of the document would have led Guiste to believe that it had spoken about St. Jean. He responded that there had only been two candidates in the election of 2009 in that constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Mendes then sought to find out if Guiste thought that any information therein pertaining to St Jean was true and when Guiste responded no, he probed to find why did he believe it was about St Jean if they were not true. Guiste had previously claimed that he and St. Jean were friends.<\/p>\n<p>The other witnesses for the respondents were Joan Hilaire-Guiste, Lawrence DeGallerie and Davis Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Court resumed at 1:30 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two witnesses for the petitioners and four witnesses for the respondents took the stand during this morning&#8217;s session as the election petition matter involving Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt and Education Minister Petter St. Jean continued. 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