Voter fraud charge is withdrawn

Fri, May 5th 2017, 02:05 PM

 

MORE than a month after he was hauled before a magistrate in handcuffs on allegations of voter fraud, an Eleuthera native had the charge withdrawn against him yesterday.
Andrew Johnson, 57, a long-serving Water and Sewerage Corporation employee, reappeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney after his initial April 25 and May 1 trial dates were respectively adjourned due to the absence of the prosecution witnesses in his case and the Crown’s request to take instructions from the attorney general concerning the charge of making a false declaration, which was made contrary to Section 94(a) of the Parliamentary Elections Act, Chapter 7...

MORE than a month after he was hauled before a magistrate in handcuffs on allegations of voter fraud, an Eleuthera native had the charge withdrawn against him yesterday.

Andrew Johnson, 57, a long-serving Water and Sewerage Corporation employee, reappeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney after his initial April 25 and May 1 trial dates were respectively adjourned due to the absence of the prosecution witnesses in his case and the Crown’s request to take instructions from the attorney general concerning the charge of making a false declaration, which was made contrary to Section 94(a) of the Parliamentary Elections Act, Chapter 7...

 

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