Thanks for sharing Toyin.
Mama Guy sentencing, as Trinis would say. He called him a man of good character to hide his erroneous final instructions to the jury when he said that the lies told in court did not mean guilt. The proper instruction is to remind the jury that they were looking at innocent people accused of a crime that must be proven beyond all reasonable doubts. In fact, I discovered in High School when I went to sit in the magistrates court for fun in my village, that the law frowns on the word 'lie', preferring 'it is not true'. The judge misled the jury in my humble opinion.
Turns out that it is not a lie for Africans to call one another brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, daddy, or mother. Kwame Ture and Harrison pointed this out in Black Power. We are all related by blood. And talking of blood relations, the prosecution abused power by using text messages in which the daughters and their father expressed love for each other on Fathers Day to try and insinuate a criminal conspiracy. Having found the daughter innocent, the parents will likely be freed too if they appeal as I concluded in a blog post.
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Besides, if the case was about organ harvesting, why was it not charged under the Organ Donor Act of 2020 rather than the Modern Slavery Act of 2015 which is in conflict because of the inconsistent requirement that even when a traveler is consenting (to be a donor, for instance) it is still a crime if exploitation is suspected? Look at the kettle calling the pot black on exploitation and modern slavery, as if the trans Atlantic slavery was not modern.
Being of the Anglican denomination, Ike is too much of an Anglophile to realize that he has been had by the racist, sexist, imperialist justice system of the UK. He may never appeal but he has strong legal grounds for appeal.
Biko
On Wednesday, 10 May 2023 at 09:25:28 GMT-4, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
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