A Supreme Court jury accepted that a man had been framed when he was unanimously acquitted yesterday.

Don Sweeting, 31, of Knowles Drive, Bozine Town, stood trial before Acting Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hilton in connection with the August 31, 2015 armed robbery of the Super Value Food Store on Baillou Hill Road. Although the incident was captured on the store's surveillance footage, the perpetrator could not be identified as a towel completely covered his face.

According to the prosecution's case, a man, whom they alleged was Sweeting, went to cashier number four around 12:30 p.m. with a box of Mueller's pasta. When the cashier rang up the sale, the man produced a gun and robbed her of cash from the till. Although no witnesses were able to identify the robber, police issued a wanted poster for Sweeting later that day. He surrendered to police the following day and that's when police allegedly matched his prints to those lifted from the pasta box and a print from the bottom of the till.

Defense attorney Sonia Timothy suggested that police had planted the prints as Sweeting had, had prior contact with police. She said it made no sense that the robber's print would have been at the bottom of the till.

Floyd Moxey prosecuted.

Artesia Davis, Guardian Senior Reporter

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