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Windhoek – It never rains, but the American Marcus Thomas takes the opportunity to claim legal representatives. His last lawyer, Gilroy Kasper, refused yesterday to represent him in the trial that took place. dragged since 2014.
Kasper had to decline because there is no opening date this year but Judge Christi Liebenberg wants the trial to be ongoing and eventually finalized this year.
The Judge now instructed the Legal Aid Branch to find a lawyer who will be available at trial dates for Thomas
The trial was discontinued shortly after Thomas asked for at the court through the intermediary of his legal representative, Werner van Rensburg, for mental observation after falling from a
Since then, he lost several lawyers
. Judge Liebenberg recently rejected a request by Thomas to recuse himself from the prejudgment trial. The Supreme Court dismissed the subsequent appeal that Thomas filed against the refusal.
Thomas alleged that Judge Liebenberg was biased when he used the words "acted" or "deeds" on July 3, 2017 to determine the admissibility of two Thomas, who claims to have suffered of a brain injury when he fell from a fence of two meters during an attempt at sloppy escape, was declared fit to stand trial in the High Court of Windhoek by two psychiatrists.
He was first declared unfit by the state psychiatrist, Dr. Frieda Mthoko, because of a neuro-cognitive disorder, but later, two private psychiatrists, Dr. Reinhardt Sieberhagen and Professor Tuviah Zabow of South Africa
Yesterday it was also revealed that Kevin Townsend, who is accused with Thomas of the murder of the Namibian national Andre Heckmair, filed a lawsuit against the prosecutor. lawyer Antonia Verhoef, is finalized.
In civil matters, he sued the state and Attorney General's office for illegal solitary confinement and also wants Verhoef removed from the trial because "she is biased against him and just wants to see him punished".
According to him, he is not offered the protection that he is Judge Liebenberg told Mbanga Siyomunji, the legal representative of Townsend funded by the state, that he would not receive the application for stay because it was not made. by the state of Siyomunji
The state alleges that the American couple killed Heckmair, who is the son of the owners of the Cattle Baron Steak Ranch, by shooting him to the assassin at 39. back in the head on January 7, 2011 in Gusinde St He went to Windhoek and stole his mobile phone and his wallet containing 100 Swiss francs
They also allegedly imported two 9mm guns without a license and possessed a pistol and 7.65mm ammunition without a license. It is further alleged that the accused removed a notebook from custody after the police seized it as an exhibit and / or burned, destroyed or discarded some pages of the book.
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