Guyana’s Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecutions are among senior legal officials who have rejected a suggestion by Senior Counsel, Ralph Ramkarran that jury trials should be abolished.
Writing in last weekend’s Mirror newspaper, Ramkarran said this move is necessary to reduce the possibility of guilty offenders escaping justice because of flaws and deficiencies in the justice system, opining that too many convictions are being overturned on appeal owing to several factors, including inadequate summing up by judges.
“The abolition will be too drastic.
