Barbara Gayle, Staff ReporterCHIEF JUSTICE Lensley Wolfe is expected to make a ruling on Monday on the submissions in law which lawyers for the defence and the prosecution have been making in the Kraal murder case.
The lawyers began their submissions on Thursday when the Crown closed its case after calling 44 witnesses in the Home Circuit Court.
Defence lawyers made their submissions from Thursday to Friday afternoon. Lawyers for the prosecution then began their submissions and will continue on Monday morning.
JURY TO RETURN
Yesterday Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe, who is presiding at the trial, instructed the
registrar to inform the jurors that they must return to court at 2:00 p.m. on Monday.
The legal submissions are being made in the absence of the jury. On Thursday, the Chief Justice released the 12-member jury until Monday morning with the hope that the submissions would have been completed by Friday afternoon.
Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams and five other policemen have been on trial since October 31 for the murder of four civilians at Kraal, Clarendon, on May 7, 2003.
The Crown is alleging that the policemen were not acting in lawful self defence when 47-year-old Angella Richards, 39-year-old Lowena Thompson, and Kirk Gordon and Matthew James, both 29, were fatally shot.
The police had gone to Kraal in search of Bashington Douglas otherwise called 'Chen Chen' and 'Shortman' who was wanted for offences including murder. Some prosecution witnesses have testified that Douglas was at the house when the police party went there.
Also on trial are Corporals Patrick Coke and Shane Lyons and Constables Roderick Collier, Devon Bernard and Leford Gordon.
