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7 Remand Prisoners Freed Under Justice For All Programme

Seven persons on remand at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison were yesterday set free under the “Justice For All...

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Chief Justice Oversees Last Justice For All Programme; Inmates Freed

As part of efforts to decongest the prisons, three judges Friday sat at the Nsawam Prison and heard the cases of some...

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Chinese Illegal Miners Abused Ghana’s Immigration Laws – State Attorney

The five Chinese and their Ghanaian counterparts arrested in March 2017 for mining illegally on River Ankobra at Dawule...

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Accused Person Smears Himself With Faeces To Avoid Trial

Proceedings at the Ashaiman circuit court was Monday halted for two hours after a-19-year old accused person who was to...

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Court Pardons 13 Delta Force ‘escapees’

They were convicted to a fine of 200 penalty units each and a bond to be of good behaviour The Kumasi Circuit Court...

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Bail Denied For 8 Persons Arrested For Storming Court

A Kumasi circuit court has denied bail to eight persons arrested for storming the facility last Thursday and freeing 13...

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Bail Denied For 8 Persons Arested For Storming Court

A Kumasi circuit court has denied bail to eight persons arrested for storming the facility last Thursday and freeing 13...

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Six Prisoners Freed

Six prisoners who were being held on remand at the Sekondi Prison for various offences were freed last Friday by the...

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Six Discharged, Two Convicted At Sekondi Under Justice For All Programme

Six persons who were being held on remand at the Sekondi Prison for various offences have been discharged under the...

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Six Discharged, Two Convicted At Sekondi Under Justice For All Prog.

Six persons who were being held on remand at the Sekondi Prison for various offences have been discharged under the...

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Man ‘freed’ After 5 Months In Jail For Possessing ‘wee’

A man who had been on remand for five months for possessing a roll of cannabis popularly called 'weed' has been...

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Dildo’ Woman Acquitted and Discharged

An Accra Circuit Court presided over by Abena Oppong Argine Doku has  acquitted  and discharged Queenie Akuffo on the...

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Supreme Court Weighs Bad Legal Advice To Korean Immigrant

Trying to avoid costly prosecutions and long prison sentences for the accused, plea bargains are commonplace in the...

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Victim Explains Blender Assault During Intense Cross-Examination

Victim of alleged assault at Marwako restaurant has explained how her supervisor Ghanaian-born Lebanese Jihad Chabaan...

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American Blacks Disproportionate Victims of Judicial Errors

A black man named Ulysses Charles was wrongfully identified by three female rape victims in Boston as their attacker...

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Electrician In Court For Allegedly Defiling Girl, 8

29-yerar-old electrician, who is accused of allegedly defiling an eight-year-old girl at Amrahia near Adenta in Accra,...

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Chicken Pox Strikes 29 Foreign Illegal Miners Facing Trial

The 29 foreigners arrested for illegally mining in the Atiwa Forest reserve have been infected with rashes suspected to...

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AG Yet To Assign Prosecutor

The Attorney General’s Department is yet to assign a schedule officer to the case of three persons, allegedly...

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Achimota School Student In Court For Murder

A third-year student of Achimota Senior High School has appeared before an Accra District Court for allegedly shooting...