Legal arguments dominate trial
Created: Sep 11, 1997 11:00 AM
is alleged to have possessed, handled and supplied heroin.Lasheika Mary Nicole Burgess, 20, of Westwood Land,
is alleged to have possessed, handled and supplied heroin.
Lasheika Mary Nicole Burgess, 20, of Westwood Land, Pembroke has denied three drug charges which arose after former Supreme Court clerk Shawn Crockwell stole a drugs exhibit from a vault in 1995.
She has denied possessing heroin, supplying the drug and handling it with intent to supply. The heroin came from a trial during which Ghanaian Jeffrey Kwasi Osborne was acquitted of importing the drugs into Bermuda. At the end of the trial, Crockwell stole the heroin exhibit, getting $24,000 from its sale.
He was jailed for ten years.