plea deal - Bahamas Court News https://bahamascourtnews.com Providing comprehensive coverage of court cases Sat, 16 Dec 2023 13:33:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Man jailed for illegal relationship with teen girl https://bahamascourtnews.com/man-jailed-for-illegal-relationship-with-teen-girl/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-jailed-for-illegal-relationship-with-teen-girl Sat, 16 Dec 2023 13:02:13 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=6696 Nassau, Bahamas- A 40–year-old funeral director has been jailed for five years for having an illegal sexual relationship with his teenage girlfriend. Godfrey Gray, then 37, began a sexual relationship with the 14-year-old girl, whom he met at a funeral, in October 2020. In December 2020, he was arrested and charged with unlawful sexual intercourse […]

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]]> Armed robber gets 10 years for three hold-ups https://bahamascourtnews.com/armed-robber-gets-10-years-for-three-hold-ups/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=armed-robber-gets-10-years-for-three-hold-ups Sat, 19 Aug 2023 03:54:43 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=6351 Nassau, BAHAMAS- A Jamaican man who robbed three businesses has been jailed for 10 years. Wayne Smith, 25, and others, robbed Fortune Supermarket of $5,500 on August 31, 2022. On September 10, 2022, Smith and his accomplices robbed 700 Wines and Spirits on Bernard Road of $41,000. Smith also robbed an employee of $20 and […]

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]]> Colombian smugglers to testify against cop https://bahamascourtnews.com/colombian-smugglers-to-testify-against-cop-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colombian-smugglers-to-testify-against-cop-2 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:13:08 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=6069 Two Colombian drug smugglers have agreed to testify against an allegedly corrupt cop

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]]> Top plea deals of 2022 https://bahamascourtnews.com/top-plea-deals-of-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-plea-deals-of-2022 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:15:34 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5885 Plea deals have been touted as a way to reduce the country’s criminal case backlog. Defendants are often given reduced sentences for saving judicial time by foregoing a trial. Nonetheless some of those plea deals have sparked controversy. Here are some of the notable plea deals of 2022: Man who got teen girl pregnant sentenced to […]

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]]> Child rapist gets credit for time-served in plea deal https://bahamascourtnews.com/child-rapist-gets-credit-for-time-served-in-plea-deal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=child-rapist-gets-credit-for-time-served-in-plea-deal Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:30:00 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5642 NASSAU-A man has pleaded guilty to raping a 10-year-old girl in 2010. Reginald Sweeting, 62, finally owned up to his heinous crime by taking a plea deal in the unlawful sexual intercourse case. Pursuant to the agreement, Senior Justice Bernard Turner gave Sweeting credit for the three years, nine months and two weeks that he […]

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]]> Man gets 20 years for double shooting https://bahamascourtnews.com/man-gets-20-years-for-double-shooting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-gets-20-years-for-double-shooting Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:45:28 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5624 NASSAU- An allegedly abusive man who killed his girlfriend’s sister and tried to kill her brother has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Fritz Geffrard, 29, received the sentences after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the January 3, 2021 shooting death of Jilny Fleureme and the attempted murder of her 10-year-old brother. Geffrard had […]

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]]> Man who got teen girl pregnant gets 4 years https://bahamascourtnews.com/man-who-got-teen-girl-pregnant-gets-4-years/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-who-got-teen-girl-pregnant-gets-4-years Tue, 29 Mar 2022 10:21:17 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5191 NASSAU- A pervert who got a 14-year-old he met on Facebook pregnant has been jailed. Justin Pratt, 40, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment when he pleaded guilty to five counts of statutory rape before Justice Renae McKay. Pursuant to a plea deal, Pratt will spend three years on probation after he completes his prison […]

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]]> Man gets 15 years for murder of estranged wife https://bahamascourtnews.com/man-gets-15-years-for-murder-of-estranged-wife/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-gets-15-years-for-murder-of-estranged-wife Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:00:00 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5104 NASSAU- A man who killed his wife and wounded his mother-in-law in a vicious cutlass attack has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Philip Coleman Dean, 65, hacked his wife, Eleanor, to death at her mother’s house in Taits, Long Island on September 1, 2017. The couple had separated and Mrs Dean moved in […]

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]]> Spree robber gets 10 years in plea deal https://bahamascourtnews.com/spree-robber-gets-10-years-in-plea-deal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spree-robber-gets-10-years-in-plea-deal Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:44:41 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5085 NASSAU- A Jamaican man who admitted to committing a string of armed robberies in 2020 has been sentenced to 10 years as part of a plea agreement. Shakeil Smith, of St Catherine’s Jamaica, pleaded guilty to five armed robberies and causing grievous harm for shooting one of his victims. Smith robbed Rubis Service Station on […]

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]]> Cop shooter seeks plea deal to lesser crime https://bahamascourtnews.com/cop-shooter-seeks-plea-deal-to-lesser-crime/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cop-shooter-seeks-plea-deal-to-lesser-crime Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:04:00 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=3998 NASSAU- A man, who shot two police officers responding to a domestic violence call, is trying to work out a plea deal. Marty Sawyer shot Chief Superintendent Wendell Smith and Corporal 3688 Andre Linden with a shotgun at his home in Marsh Harbour, Abaco. Sawyer, who was also injured in the November 24, 2020 incident, […]

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