'Legal quandry' after records destroyed in Guyana prison fire
Prisoners could be released
Wednesday, 12th July 2017

While a duplicate record from a case file may offer some significant help, since prisoners are known to provide false names when arrested and convicted, compounded by the non-existence of a fingerprint or photographic profile of a tried person on a case jacket, it may become difficult for the state effectively and fairly to determine who was convicted and who was not.
Moreover, there are legal arguments that a committal warrant cannot be recreated or written up for a second time by a magistrate or judge who did not hand down a sentence.
Several legal precedents have been highlighted, involving cases where a person’s original conviction record was destroyed.
Outside of that, the laws of Guyana forbid the prison system from incarcerating a person without a warrant or an instrument that was issued by a convicting magistrate or judge, to commit that person to prison.
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Original source: Guyana Guardian
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