This morning the Westmoreland Circuit Court docket selected a seven-member jury for the trial of three lawmen within the 2014 Mario Deane case.
Trial begins tomorrow.
Presiding Excessive Court docket Justice Courtney Daye right this moment rescheduled the beginning of the trial of Corporal Elaine Stewart and Constables Juliana Clevon and Marlon Grant, as a result of one other jury case was scheduled for listening to within the afternoon.
The trial of the three cops had been set for Monday, following the matter’s final point out on February 17 and 21. The latter date was for case administration to make sure that all paperwork had been prepared for the trial’s begin.
Stewart, Clevon and Grant are charged with manslaughter, misconduct in a public workplace, and taking steps to pervert the course of justice, all in relation to Mario Deane’s dying.
It’s alleged that the three cops had been on responsibility on the Barnett Road Police Station lock-up in Montego Bay, St James, on August 3, 2014, on the time when Deane was reportedly crushed whereas in custody. Deane, who was 31 years outdated, had reportedly been arrested and positioned in custody earlier that day for possession of a small quantity of ganja.
Following the alleged incident, Deane was taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital in an unresponsive state and died three days later.
Additionally it is alleged that Stewart, the the senior cop on responsibility, ordered the cleansing of the cell the place the beating happened earlier than investigators from the Unbiased Fee of Investigations arrived.
The case towards the three cops was beforehand listed earlier than the St James Circuit Court docket. It was transferred to the Westmoreland Circuit Court docket on November 15, 2024 as a result of difficulties in empanelling jurors in St James for the matter to be tried.
– Christopher Thomas
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