The prosecution yesterday argued against the merit of an application by the attorney for former minister Jennifer Westford and her former Chief Personnel Officer Margaret Cummings to stay larceny and forgery charges against them.
Defence attorney Neil Boston, at the last hearing of the matter, argued that State Minister Joseph Harmon public announcement of an amnesty in relation to the return of government vehicles justified an indefinite stay in the case.
However, prosecutor Bharat Mangru yesterday submitted that no amnesty had been granted and that although the core of the defence’s argument is that an executive abuse of power has occurred, the Magistrate’s Court has no jurisdiction to deal with issues of that
