Financial crime is a recent and potentially dangerous invention when it is used to prosecute people based on their station in life.
So said Queen’s Counsel Ralph Thorne yesterday as he delivered his closing address in the money laundering cases against Marlon Hosea Carrington in the No. 4 Supreme Court.
“Financial crime is a recent invention and it is a dangerous invention when it is used unjustly against people based on their station in life,” the senior attorney told the jury.
“And I don’t say it to encourage prosecution against rich people, but there is a strong chance and that if O.J. Simpson were a poor man he would have been convicted of that double murder,” Thorne said.
Carrington, of Phillips Road, The Pine, St Michael, is on trial for engaging in a transaction involving $57 000 being the proceeds of crime on December 7, 2009. (HLE)
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