I was shocked, to say the least, to have read that the Crown ‘accepted’ a guilty plea to two counts of manslaughter rather than proceed to actually prosecute it’s case for actual murder. According to press reports, one of the prosecutors stated that they could not have proceed to trial for murder ‘ because murder is a crime of specific intent……’ When I read this legal gibberish, I almost became sick.
Yes, murder is a crime of specific intent. For a man to have been discovered in someone’s house, to wit, a closet in the wee hours of the morning, should indicate, even to a crazy person, that that person intended to commit a crime.
The accused said that he was, allegedly, suffering from the effects of Bacardi. Did he have coke ( the soda ) with it? It is trite criminal law that self-induced ‘drunkeness’ or intoxication is no defense.
Over the years, any number of lock tight cases have either been ‘botched’ by inexperienced crown counsel or serious charges withdrawn or lesser pleas accepted. This is inexcusable and I want to know where is Alfred Sears, the learned and supposed compassionate Attorney-General in all of this ? Christie could be heard literally preaching to a convention over at Atlantis while the man who pleaded ‘guilty’ to slaughtering two little children could be seen ‘smiling ‘ to himself as the Crown accepted his plea, with little or no resistance.
As a believer in The Master, Jesus Christ, I plead His blood on this sick and degenerate nation. Our political and religious Pharisees are too busy, apparently, seeking seats at the head tables. Perry Christie , the beleaguered Prime Minister and ‘best’ speaker in the nation is, seemingly, turning to the pulpit, rather than himself and his top heavy, cabinet for solutions. Play church, if you must, but don’t play with God or peoples, intelligence. To God then, in all things, be the glory.
By Ortland Bodie
Letter To The Editor, The Nassau Guardian
