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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Major Development set to unfold in Kern Spencer case ( Gleaner )...</span>
Legal experts are suggesting that a major development is set to occur in the trial of former junior minister Kern Spencer this week.An application is to be made today in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court for the case to be relisted for a special application to be made tomorrow.Lawyers from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions will be making the applications before Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey.Defence lawyers in the case have been informed of the applications.Spencer and his co-accused, Coleen Wright, were ordered to return to court on November 15 for Pusey to decide whether the case should proceed or be thrown out.Legal experts who were questioned on the possible reason for the application for the case to be brought forward said it could mean that the Crown is not proceeding with the case against Spencer and Wright, or an application is being made for Pusey to disqualify herself from the case so it can commence before another resident magistrate. Gifts from cubaSpencer and Wright are charged in connection with the distribution of millions of free energy-saving bulbs which were gifts from the Cuban government but ended up costing taxpayers millions of dollars.There has been much fireworks in court between the defence and Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn over how Rodney Chin, who was Spencer's co-accused, came to be the Crown's star witness.This led to calls for disclosure on the issue from defence counsel K.D. Knight and Patrick Atkinson.Pusey granted the application for disclosure and Llewellyn, who is prosecuting the case, said at first that she met with Chin at his lawyer's office after he had given a statement to the police.Last month, further disclosure was made by Llewellyn that the meeting took place when Chin was a co-accused.Pusey commented then that the latest disclosure was "far worse" damaging to the Crown's case, as it indicated that the DPP met with Chin while he was still charged.Knight and Atkinson have called for the case against their clients to be thrown out on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct on the part of the DPP, and abuse of the process.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Major Development set to unfold in Kern Spencer case ( Gleaner )...</span>
Legal experts are suggesting that a major development is set to occur in the trial of former junior minister Kern Spencer this week.An application is to be made today in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court for the case to be relisted for a special application to be made tomorrow.Lawyers from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions will be making the applications before Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey.Defence lawyers in the case have been informed of the applications.Spencer and his co-accused, Coleen Wright, were ordered to return to court on November 15 for Pusey to decide whether the case should proceed or be thrown out.Legal experts who were questioned on the possible reason for the application for the case to be brought forward said it could mean that the Crown is not proceeding with the case against Spencer and Wright, or an application is being made for Pusey to disqualify herself from the case so it can commence before another resident magistrate. Gifts from cubaSpencer and Wright are charged in connection with the distribution of millions of free energy-saving bulbs which were gifts from the Cuban government but ended up costing taxpayers millions of dollars.There has been much fireworks in court between the defence and Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn over how Rodney Chin, who was Spencer's co-accused, came to be the Crown's star witness.This led to calls for disclosure on the issue from defence counsel K.D. Knight and Patrick Atkinson.Pusey granted the application for disclosure and Llewellyn, who is prosecuting the case, said at first that she met with Chin at his lawyer's office after he had given a statement to the police.Last month, further disclosure was made by Llewellyn that the meeting took place when Chin was a co-accused.Pusey commented then that the latest disclosure was "far worse" damaging to the Crown's case, as it indicated that the DPP met with Chin while he was still charged.Knight and Atkinson have called for the case against their clients to be thrown out on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct on the part of the DPP, and abuse of the process.