An attorney said she is seeking legal advice over her arrest yesterday.
Ramona Farquharson-Seymour was detained for two hours by order of Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans pursuant to Section 239 of the Penal Code.
That section gives the magistrate power to order the immediate arrest of someone who insults a magistrate or behaves in a disrespectful manner.
Although Farquharson-Seymour does not believe her conduct fell within those categories, while representing two defendants in an assault trial, she said, "I will take advice and then decide whether I will take legal action or just leave it."
According to Farquharson-Seymour, the magistrate ordered her to sit down after she insisted that the magistrate check to see if the witness had previously identified herself on video footage of the altercation. Farquharson-Seymour said the magistrate ordered her arrest after she refused to sit. She was brought back before the magistrate, and she said that she had "no intention to be disrespectful to the court".
Farquharson-Seymour said she plans to ask the magistrate to recuse herself from the case when it resumes next week.
She thanked Wayne Munroe, QC; Murrio Ducille; Roberto Reckley; and her husband, Calvin Seymour, for coming to her assistance.

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