ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC -A lawyer representing a person accused of inflicting the dying of a 24-year-old homosexual man has confirmed that his shopper has been launched on bail.
Legal professional Allie Gill didn’t share particulars concerning the bail circumstances for Javid Raymond, a 28-year-old unemployed man, noting that his shopper had been positioned on bail on December 20 after spending roughly three months on the Richmond Hill Jail.
Police had charged Raymond with deliberately and unlawfully inflicting the dying of Josiah Jonty Robinson on June 17, 2023.
Jonty’s physique was discovered on a seashore within the south of the island. A few of his shut associates imagine that he was killed due to his way of life, however in a press release issued in July, the police mentioned that that they had no purpose to hyperlink his dying to his sexual orientation.
“We want to inform the general public that based mostly on investigations, we’re in no place to hyperlink the dying of Mr Robinson to his sexual orientation since now we have gathered no proof to that impact,” mentioned the assertion.
Raymond’s launch on bail had brought about a stir right here. Nonetheless, legal legal professional Jerry Edwin mentioned that since Grenada amended the Prison Code in 2012 to offer for non-capital and capital homicide prices, a number of folks charged with non-capital homicide have been positioned on bail due to the circumstances beneath which the offense occurred.
“To begin with, it should be made clear that bail for non-capital homicide is just not one decided by the Justice of the Peace in a Justice of the Peace courtroom, however a Excessive Court docket decide makes such a dedication,” mentioned Edwin.
“All of it relies on the circumstances beneath which the dying occurred,” mentioned Edwin, including that he has purchasers who have been granted bail after being accused of homicide.
He mentioned he has had three such purchasers over the previous three years.
He defined that two of the issues for granting bail to a homicide accused are self-defense and no legal conviction.
“If the accused has no historical past of interacting with police for no matter purpose beforehand, and instantly that individual is charged with the offense of non-capital homicide, then his or her lawyer can file a movement to the Excessive Court docket searching for to have the individual on bail,” he mentioned, reiterating “an accused assassin getting bail is basically on the discretion of the Choose.”
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