A man accused of shooting a policeman was acquitted on Thursday after his lawyer successfully argued that he had no case to answer.
Prosecutors alleged that Marvin Coleby opened fire on Sergeant 106 Mitchelet Meronard on November 16, 2009 and shot him in the knee.
On the Crown's case, Meronard and his partner Leon Bethell, who was an assistant superintendent at the time, stopped to search a group of men who were sitting on the porch of a home at Laird Street.
Meronard claimed that Coleby, whom he said he knew, shot him. However, he did not say how well he knew Coleby or how long he had observed him before the shooting.
Meronard was the only person who purported to identify the shooter.
At the close of the prosecution's case, Coleby's lawyer Raymond Rolle argued that the recognition evidence was extremely weak. Rolle pointed out that the shooting was over within seconds, so there was room for error in the identification.
Senior Justice Jon Isaacs accepted Rolle's submissions and directed the jury to return an acquittal.
Linda Evans was the prosecutor.

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