Newly installed Magistrate Court Number 8 hears its first cases
Shirley Wallace
Four new magistrates were sworn in on August twentieth, leading up to the opening of an eighth Magistrates Court. The court is located on the second floor of the Center Point Building on North Front Street and the man in charge is Magistrate Emerson Banner. Sergeant Clinton Magdaleno, a police prosecutor with the department for over twenty years, is prosecuting the cases at court number eight. The first defendant before Magistrate Banner today was forty-four year old Shirley Wallace. Wallace was detained on August twenty-fifth for unruly behaviour in front of the Mahogany Street sub-station and cursing the special constable who took her in. She would have faced a minor charge, but Wallace managed to escape from custody and was on the run until this past Monday. So today she was read four charges: Escaping Lawful Custody, Theft for running off with the handcuffs, Resisting Arrest and Using Obscene Language. Wallace pleaded guilty to the first three and told the Magistrate that she ran from the police because they beat her up inside the station and she feared for her life. With that explanation, Magistrate Banner entered an equivocal plea of not guilty on all charges and offered bail to Wallace in the sum of one thousand, five hundred dollars. Wallace is due back before the court on October sixth.
Ms. Wallace get my sympathy……. poor child.
Banner first case ended with an equivocal plea of not guily, and bail of a sum of one thousand dollars.
c’mon, a handcuff does not cost that much, what if she returns the handcuff, will the bail be less? (Sigh)
beside that, I think that she has paid the price for resisting arrest and escaping lawful custody when the police beat her ass her up at the station.
Let’s hope she doesn’t run again if someone is dumb enough to post bail.
Flight is an admission of guilt. Everyone else hobbles over to a TV station to show off their injuries, she did not, so I hope she has pictures & witnesses. Where are her bruise?
unu pup rod and elgin stop make everything politics same thing happen when musa wa sin there .what they should do is having real policeman and stop having special constable who wants to be arrested by a wannabe cop anyways i dont blame her to run. what the police should do is study miss shirley wallace and find out what her technique was to escape from them in custody with hand cuffs on .what a shame they should be embarass and let her go free how could somebody escape in handcuffs from professional police officers ? miss wallace u make police officers look like police …iffers
unu stop di blame poeple fu unu life