Criminal Court “E” has released an alleged rapist and notorious scammer identified as George B. Wade alias Jack Nicholas Davis.
At the Temple of Justice, Court ‘E’ Judge Serena Galawolo recently granted a motion to admit the defendant to bail.
This release of defendant Wade left the victim’s lawyer and prosecutors in shock as to why the judge went ahead to release defendant Wade without any knowledge to the victim or the complainant’s legal representation though rape is a non-bailable offense under the Liberian law.
The defendant filed a US$ 25,000 Criminal appearance bond through the Sky Insurance Company with Pinky Abu who was once convicted by the lower court but later purged by the Supreme Court for murdering her boyfriend Morris Johnson in Paynesville in 2019, serving as one of the sureties.
Criminal court “D” at the Temple of Justice in April of this year, acquitted a notorious scammer identified as Wade of crime of armed robbery.
The verdict was handed down by Judge Mameia Jabateh Sirleaf on Wednesday April 3, 2024 after final arguments by both defense and prosecution lawyers, the court in its decision said, prosecution failed to establish a prima faci case against the defendant.
A prima faci cause is one which is established by sufficient evidence and can only be overturned by rebutting evidence adduced at trial and that prosecution also failed to sustain the principle of burden of proof by not providing a single iota of evidence in order to convict the defendant.
The court said then that all the seven witnesses produced by prosecution did not link the defendant to the crime of armed robbery.
Defendant Jack Nicholas Davis was held for multiple crimes and the armed robbery was just of them crimes he had been acquitted.
Defendant Wade was charged with Rape, Sexual Assault, Simple Assault, Terroristic Threat, Felonious Restrain, Menacing, Criminal Coercion, Robbery, Armed Robbery, Forgery or Counterfeiting, Theft of Property, and Disseminating Obscene Materials which contravened Chapter 14; Sections 14.70, 14.77, 14.21, 14.24, 14.51, 14.25, 14,27, Chapter 15; Section 15.30, 15.32, 15.70, 15.51 and Chapter 18; Section 18.7 for purposely, knowingly and intentionally having intercourse with women not his wives and without their consent, in the process causing bodily injuries both physical and psychological, as well as threating his victim(s) with serious bodily harm or death while unlawfully retraining his victim(s) at unspecified locations where he subjects them to involuntary servitude, take nude photos of or video records his victim(s) with the employ of weapons such as single barrel short gun pistol or knife.”
However, prosecution took exception and promised to take advantage of the law controlling.
At same time, trial jurors of the February 2024 Term of court has brought down a guilty verdict against defendant Joshua Wleh for the crime of Armed Robbery.
Judge Mameita Jabateh Sirleaf said the probation report revealed that defendant Wleh is a notorious criminal who has over the years terrorized the Chocolate City Community in Gardnesville
Meanwhile, defendant Wleh has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
