No case made for scrapping jury trials, says AG

Anil Nandlall

Although concerns persist about the quality of the jury pool, there continues to be scepticism about scrapping the jury trial system and Attorney General Anil Nandlall says that a case is still to be made to review the system.

After Dexter Marshall was found not guilty last month by a jury for the murder of Mark Caesar, Justice Roxane George, who presided over the trial, told him that he was very lucky, since there was relatively strong evidence in the case.

Marshall had been identified by the victim’s brother—an eyewitness—as one of the two men