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Deputy DPP Shannon Jones-Gittens to Deliver Lecture on Criminal Court Backlogs
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Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Shannon Jones-Gittens will lead the next instalment of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court’s Public Education Lecture Series, offering a detailed look at criminal case backlogs and the push for regional reform.
Jones-Gittens is scheduled to speak on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, at 6 p.m. (AST) in Courtroom #1 at the Antigua and Barbuda High Court of Justice.
Her presentation, titled “The Impact of Criminal Court Backlogs in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court: Transforming Challenges into Opportunities for Change,” will examine longstanding delays in criminal matters and the opportunities they present for modernising judicial processes.
Court officials say the lecture aims to deepen public understanding of the strains facing the justice system and highlight approaches that can strengthen case management and improve access to justice.
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You made your position very effectively
WHAT THE HELL…! …ADDRESSING CRIMINAL COURT BACKLOGS? …SALT AND PEPPER
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COMICAL ENOUGH:
Sounds rather ‘…COMICAL’ to speak to ‘…BACKLOG OF CASES.’
Except ‘…SELECTIVITY IN PROSECUTIONS,’ just what can be said of ‘…CASE BACKLOGS?’
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CASES ON POINT
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APPEALS FIRST: …WHAT CAN BE SAID: of
(i) ‘…WILMOTH DANIEL:
(ii) …HAROLD LOVELL:
(iii) …JACQUI QUINN: and
(iv) …HARRY JOSIAH’ [From 2014….?].
HOW DOES THE OFFICE OF DPP RESPOND TO THESE?
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SALT AND PEPPER
Well, ‘…SALT AND PEPPER’ are but two appetizing food ingredients.’
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The term, applied to ‘…CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS,’ a ‘…DPP AND DEPUTY DPP,’ shall decide whether or not they shall ‘ADD ‘..SALT:’ i.e
(a) ‘…NOLLE PROSEQUI (Not prosecuting the indictment): or ‘…ADD PEPPER:’ i.e.
(b) …PROSECUTE THE INDICTED CONSTABLES ON THE BASISI ‘…PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE.’
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NOW:
THE FATAL BLUNDER
Clearly in the ‘…2017 to 2025 RAPE AND BUGGERY INDICTMENTS AGAINST
(i) ‘…TWO POLICE CONSTABLES,’ the ‘DEPUTY DPP, SHANNON JONES-GITTENS’ may find it embarrassing and difficult addressing the apparent ‘…FATAL BLUNDER,’ made by ‘….DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS (DPP), CLEMENT JOSEPH: who
(ii) ‘…PROPERLY DECIDED TO PROSECUTE THE INDICTMENTS OF RAPE AND BUGGERY:
(iii) …CALLED TO THE ‘…WITNESS STAND,’ THE 19-YEAR-OLD VICTIM/PROSECUTRIX:
(iv) …BEFORE A ‘…9-MEMBER MIXED JURY’ (5-EMALES /4-MALES):
(v) …SUBJECTED HER TO ‘…EXAMINATION IN CHIEF:
(vi) …SUBJECTED HER TO ‘…CROSS EXAMINATION:’ then
(vii) …ABRUPTLY ENTERED A ‘…NOLLE PROSEQUI:’ which effectively ‘…WRESTLED’
(vii) …THE TRIAL AWAY: from
(a) ‘…THE ADJUCICATOR, HER LADYSHIP, JUSTICE ANNE-MARIE SMITH: and
(b) …EFFECTIVELY ‘SNATCHED’ THE ACCUSED: from
(c) …THE ‘CHARGE OF THE EMPANELED JURY: and
(d) …THE ACCUSED FROM THE ‘…TRIAL JUDGE.’
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WHAT THE HELL…!
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QUESTION
WHY AFTER ‘….7-YEARS’ WERE:
(a) ‘…TWO INDICTED RAPISTS: and
(b) …TWO SODOMITES: NOT GIVEN ‘….FULL AND FAIR TRIAL: that
(c) THE ‘JURY’ MAY HAVE RETURNED A VERDICT: of either ‘
(i) ‘…GUILTY: or
(ii) ….NOT GUILTY.’
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just what do the ‘…TURN OF EVENTS: say of
(a) ‘…PUBLIC PROSECUTORS?
(b) …THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: AND
(c) THE JUDICIARY?
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TALK GOOD.
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