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Court to hear Senator Kaine's bail motion Friday

Written by Bruce Boweh

Thursday, 09 October 2008

Criminal Court ‘B’ will on Friday morning hear the motion to admit Senator Roland Kaine to bail.

Defense lawyers filed the motion to admit Kaine to bail on September 10.

They claimed prosecution has not been able to prove the presumption of Kaine’s guilt.

According to them, state witnesses during the pre-trial hearing failed to link the detained Senator to the Kolleh Town massacre.

Every prosecution effort to legally resist the admission to bail motion was defeated.

Judge Karboi Nuta Wednesday dismissed the state’s latest motion to stop him from presiding over the trial.

The prosecution filed the recusal motion accusing the judge of bias.

The state claimed Judge Nuta destroyed his neutrality, by granting the motion before assigning it for hearing.

In the controversial ruling, Judge Nuta said he granted the motion because the state did not produce any convincing evidence against Kaine.

Earlier Judge Nuta denied separate trial for Kaine on grounds that records show the accused acted together.

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