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Fiona Freed of Charge For Bullet In Baby Bag
posted (October 4, 2012)
Today in Magistrate's Court, 32 year-old Fiona Mitchell, a food vendor of Fabers Road, was acquitted of keeping a single round of ammunition.

The incident happened in August of 2011, when the GSU searched the house and found 1 live round of .32 ammunition inside a baby's knapsack. It caused quite a fuss in the area at the time - as our cameras were in the area and the GSU tried to get us to stop taping. The GSU charged both Mitchell and her common-law husband, 38 year-old Mark Lewis with keeping unlicensed ammunition.

Lewis was not brought to trial because he was murdered on February 2, 2012, while he was sitting in his van in the parking lot of Belize Healthcare Partners Limited.

But the case went on. The prosecution called 3 witnesses who testified to the discovery, and when they closed their case, Mitchell's attorney Brian Neal made a no case submission.

He said that his client didn't have a case to answer because the witness gave conflicting descriptions of the ammunition. He objected to the search warrant being tendered as evidence because there was no date on the document.

He said that the prosecution didn't provide enough evidence to prove that Mitchell actually resided at the house. After considering all of Neal's submissions, Magistrate Dale Cayetano agreed that the prosecution didn't sufficiently prove its case, and as a result, he found Mitchell not guilty.

Mitchell was also charged with aggravated assault and harm against a female member of the GSU, but because no case file was produced, the charges were dismissed yesterday.

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