MIAMI, Jan. 4, CMC – The trial date Former Premier Andrew Fahie, who’s charged with a number of counts of drug smuggling, cash laundering and racketeering, won’t start on January 8 as initially scheduled as late motions by prosecutors compelled Choose Kathleen Williams to schedule a listening to about these motions on the date the trial was anticipated to start.
The trial, to be held right here, has now been pushed again to Wednesday, January 10
Fahie’s defence legal professional, Theresa Van Vliet, beforehand objected to what she described because the prosecution’s ‘eleventh-hour’ motions and requested that the court docket dismiss them.
Van Vliet contended on the time that the motions raised essential points for the primary time, together with the intention to current knowledgeable testimony and search a jury instruction on overseas legislation in a single occasion.
Fahie was arrested on April 28, 2022, and stays confined to his daughters’ house right here, as a part of his $1 million bond circumstances.
The previous Premier was nabbed in Miami after he allegedly conspired with former BVI Ports Director Oleanvine Maynard and her son, Kadeem Maynard and agreed to permit massive quantities of cocaine to move by way of BVI’s ports as a part of a multi-million greenback deal he made with an informant of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), who was posing as a drug trafficker on the time.
The beginning date for Fahie’s trial has been adjusted on a number of events, largely because of the trove of proof prosecutors declare implicates the previous Premier within the elaborate drug and cash laundering scheme.
Fahie is dealing with attainable life imprisonment if convicted on the fees introduced in opposition to him by the USA authorities.
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