Marlon Harris, the ex-police officer who was convicted of extortion in March of 2010, will have to pay the $10,000 fine ordered by the Supreme Court, because the Court of Appeal upheld his conviction and dismissed his appeal today.
Harris' attorney, Said Musa presented the Judges of the Appeal Court with 6 grounds on which they were basing the appeal on. Those included an unreasonable verdict given the evidence presented in the original trial and 5 grounds of jury misdirection by the trial judge.
After hearing the appeal to completion, which included having the Director of Public Prosecutions respond to those grounds, the panel of judges ruled that the appeal was dismissed and the conviction and sentence must stand.
On March 23, 2010, Harris was convicted before Justice Troadio Gonzalez of extorting $100 from a private citizen on December 1, 2008, while at a police checkpoint.
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