Right now, the judges in the Court of Appeal are in a quandary about how to dispose of 5 criminal appeal cases currently before them. The problem is that while the Court and certainly the 5 defendants, are anxious to get them over with, the records for these criminal trials are missing, and the staff of the judiciary haven't been able to locate them so far.
Today, these defendants, Juan Duenas, convicted of carnal knowledge; Harim Perez, convicted of rape; Solomon Marin, convicted of kidnapping and robbery; Lionel Daly, convicted of robbery and attempted murder; and Gilbert Henry, convicted of dangerous harm, all showed up to court with their attorneys. The panel of judges, however, could not hear their appeals because of these missing records. The Court of Appeal usually reviews the record to examine the evidence in the trial, and the trial judge's directions to the jury. It's basically the play by play of each case, and in these 5 criminal convictions, portions of the records are missing.
These 5 men are serving various prison sentences, and will now have to wait for the Court of Appeal to try to reconstruct the records of how their criminal trials went.
We'll keep following the story tell you the outcome of these cases when they go back to court at a date to be announced.
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