ATTORNEY GENERAL Adriel Brathwaite has put this country’s judiciary between a rock and a hard place, according to Dale Marshall, himself a former chief legal adviser to Government.
Marshall’s comments came yesterday in the wake of Police Constable Everton Gittens being granted bail during an in-chamber application to the Supreme Court No. 2 before Justice Randall Worrell, just 48 hours after Brathwaite, while speaking at the annual general meeting of the Barbados Police Association, said that if murder accused Andre “Lord Evil” Jackman could be granted bail, then Gittens, who had been on remand since last March, could also be granted bail as well.
Now Marshall is saying the proverbial “I told you so”.
“The matter of the judge’s discretion should have been left alone by the Attorney General,” Marshall said yesterday.
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