Prosecutor bluffs … defendant walks

Another murder case in the Supreme Court had ended with the words Nolle Prosequi. Forty-one year old Hubert Bennett is a free man following an unsuccessful bluff by prosecutors. At the opening of the trial the Crown’s Kamar Henry offered the defendant a plea bargain, allowing him to plead guilty to manslaughter in exchange for dropping the murder charge. When Bennett’s attorney, Michael Peyrefitte, said no, instead of proceeding with the case, prosecutors offered no evidence and mouthed the by now familiar Latin. Bennett, known as “Yankee”, was accused of stabbing to death Tiquon Emanuel in an argument over a bike in August of 2005.