ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC):

Well-known Trinidadian attorney-at-law Keith Scotland will be among a dozen lawyers expected to speak on behalf of Bernard Coard and 12 other accused prisoners who will be resentenced for the killing of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his Cabinet colleagues more than two decades ago.

Earlier this year, the Privy Council ruled that the death sentences originally imposed on the men were unconstitutional and that this also invalidated the process by which those sentences were later commuted to life imprisonment.

Special arrangements

During a special meeting with members of local media, Registrar of the Supreme Court, Robert Branch, said that the court has set aside the week of June 18-22 to deal with the matter which will be heard by Kittitian judge, Justice Francis Belle.

Special arrangements will be made to accommodate the large number of legal luminaries, journalists and members of the public who will be following this high-profile case.

Branch said that the High Court usually accommodates no more than 100 persons in the public gallery and approximately six persons in the prisoners' dock.