Miami, CMC- The trial date for Former Premier Andrew Fahie, who’s charged with a number of counts of drug smuggling, cash laundering, and racketeering, is not going to start on January January 8inally as late motions by prosecutors compelled Decide Kathleen Williams to schedule a listening to about these motions on the date the trial was anticipated to begin.
The trial, to be held right here, has now been pushed again to Wednesday, January 10. Its protection lawyer, 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 April 28and stays confined to his daughters’ dwelling 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 giant quantities of cocaine to go by means 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, primarily as a result of 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 costs introduced towards him by the US authorities.
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