Sixteen appear for arraingments session
Sixteen people appeared in the monthly arraignments session in Supreme Court this week including a teenager charged with attempted murder, two women charged with stealing substantial amounts of money and two foreigners on drug importation charges.
Jahmel Eugene Mallory, 17, Tommy Fox Road, St. George's, pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder of a CedarBridge Academy security guard.
Mallory was charged with stabbing 31-year-old Kariim Wales several times before classes had begun on March 27 on the school's premises.
Chief Justice Austin Ward put the case over for mention on August 5.
Dwayne Coddington, 22, of Whale Bay Road, Southampton, Elroy Quincy Bean, 24, of Beacon Hill, Sandys, and Jamel Thompson, 21, of Sunnyside Park Drive, Southampton, appeared in court to answer charges of causing the death of young tennis star Craig Wayne Bean.
The three men pleaded not guilty to causing death by dangerous driving two years ago but their lawyers said that they would admit to a lesser offence.
They were accused of causing 18-year-old Mr. Bean's death on Middle Road, Southampton, in October, 2000.
Mr. Justice Ward asked for social inquiry reports on all three to be prepared for when they return for mention on August 5.
A psychological report for Maureen Rose Marie Trott, 50, from St. David's, who had previously pleaded not guilty to stealing $400,000 from the Bank of Butterfield, had yet to be carried out, her lawyer, Llewellyn Peniston, told the court.
Mr Peniston said: "I had thought to go to St. Brendan's for it, but I feared they might have kept me."
Trott was remanded in custody until August 5.
Doylette Duclos, 25, who will be senetnced on July 15 for having over a kilo of cocaine.
He became sick on a flight travelling from Puerto Rico to New York on March 29 and the plane stopped in Bermuda.
He was transported to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital where it was found that he had swallowed 1,243 grams of cocaine.
Mr. Justice Ward held him in custody until sentencing on July 15.