Last night we updated you on Jasmine Hartin's judicial week, the three days' worth of court dates that Belize's most famous defendant was about to face.
That update came from her Attorney, Dickie Bradley who let us know that the week ahead was in essence no big deal and that he wasn't expecting anything more than a series of adjournments.
And today in the San Pedro magistrate's court that's exactly what he and his client got.
Cherisse Halsall was in the courtroom and spoke to Bradley outside:
Cherisse Halsall:
"Mr. Bradley so everything you said to me yesterday has come true. It was an adjournment plain and simple."
Dickie Bradley, Attorney-At-Law
"I should have given you the name of the Obeah lady that I consult regularly in these matters. No disclosure was handed the paper, handed is just a reminder paper to Ms. Hartin that her court date has been set for another day."
"I have asked and the magistrate was considerate enough that, it is unfair, she doesn't live in San Pedro you know this is really rough for her, so the magistrate could not have known those simple facts so we made an application and asked if for tomorrow she could be please informed from today when is the adjourned date for that matter. The magistrate was kind enough to allow her to be instructed today that in relation to the other matter she need not come back to court today because she can come back on another date."
"The media had posed the matter of the tiny amount of drugs and that was of no importance and suddenly when the dark hand from behind her is trying to cause as much as possible, she has told me, she has made the allegation that certain videos that are coming out to the public for viewing are coming out from a place where she knows exactly where it's coming from and it's aimed at trying to destroy her image in the eyes of the public and hopefully it taints any matter that she would have in court."
"Ms. Hartin is a victim of the system technically speaking she is to come to the San Pedro magistrate's court today in regards to the summary matters, the assault and the teeny weenie cunu amount of so-called drugs which is not for her and then when she originally appeared in relation to the manslaughter by negligence charge a date had been set which is for Thursday the 12th which is tomorrow and then they ambushed her with another matter having failed to get her supreme court bail revoked and if that had happened we now know what would have been the result, so that failed. So now they have openly come forward to take away her two children so that matter continues in the family court on Friday. So she is the first person in the history of Belize that has to go to court, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday."
Hartin's next appearance for the charge of manslaughter by negligence is set for October 5th.
