The lawyers of the former Director General of the National Police of Haiti (PNH) Godson Orélus, incarcerated since the end of October https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-25946-haiti-justice-godson-orelus-former-dg-of-the-pnh-arrested-and-imprisoned.html in the case of the seizure of a shipment of illegal weapons at the Port if St. Marc https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18569-haiti-flash-worrying-seizure-of-weapons-from-the-usa.html appealed to the Court of Appeal of Gonaïves against the order of the examining magistrate of Saint-Marc Dieunel Lumérant deciding to send their client to the criminal court to be tried without jury assistance.

Me Eugène Pierre-Louis Louis, one of the lawyers of Orélus, affirms that the decision of the Judge has transformed outside the frame of the law, the status of witness of his client in charged the rights of his client.

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26314-haiti-justice-seizure-of-weapons-in-st-marc-9-indicted-2-in-prison-and-7-fugitives.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-25946-haiti-justice-godson-orelus-former-dg-of-the-pnh-arrested-and-imprisoned.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18569-haiti-flash-worrying-seizure-of-weapons-from-the-usa.html

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