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DPP Explains Why Woman Was Remanded For 4 Years
posted (May 11, 2015)
On Friday's newscast, we told you about 52 year-old Lucilla Bartley who was acquitted of murder after she stabbed and killed her ex, Osborne Gordon.

She was tried and acquitted before Justice Troadio Gonzalez in a trial without jury. Evidence emerged that Bartley fought with the man who threatened her with a knife, and that Gordon had been abusive to her in the course of their relationship.

On Friday, her attorney, Dickie Bradley criticized the state for taking criminal action against Bartley and holding her on remand for 4 years while she awaited trial. Well, this evening, DPP Cheryl Lynn Vidal said that the decision to charge and prosecute Bartley was justified.

She explained that there was written evidence which provided an alternate account refuting bare self-defence. The issues which needed to go before a fact finding tribunal was whether or not she was provoked, whether she lost her self-control, and reacted reasonably, or whether she was justified in causing Gordon some harm, but acted in excess.

Justice Gonzalez has found, however, that she was justified in the harm she inflicted on Gordon to protect her life.

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