{"id":144944,"date":"2015-08-20T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T11:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=144944"},"modified":"2015-08-20T12:04:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T12:04:21","slug":"ag-files-writ-to-challenge-sentencing-of-gunman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=144944","title":{"rendered":"AG files writ to challenge sentencing\u00a0of gunman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Attorney General has filed an application at an Accra High court seeking to set aside a judgment of the circuit court that sentenced Charles Antwi, the gunman who was jailed after confessing he had wanted to kill President John Mahama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;DQzlWT7oNMG5U1hpKHXfUHmBfrz7OpQX&#8221;]According to the state, the trial judge, justice Obiri erred in his judgment because there was an error on the face of the record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state is further asking for a retrial and a thorough examination of the convict.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charles Antwi has been sentenced to<span style=\"color: #666699;\"> <strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/28\/gunman-in-mahamas-church-jailed-10-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">10 years imprisonment<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for entering the church [Assemblies of God] of the President, John Dramani Mahama with a gun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He had pleaded guilty to charge of\u00a0unlawful possession of the firearm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He confessed to the circuit court that he had wanted to assassinate the President.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some Ghanaians have criticised the ruling arguing that claims by Charles Antwi shows that he might not be sane, hence the need for psychological attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, a\u00a0private legal practitioner, Godwin Adjei-Gyamfi has petitioned the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/08\/01\/lawyer-petitions-amnesty-international-over-gunmans-conviction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amnesty International<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to investigate the 10-year sentencing of a 36-year-old man who went to President John Mahama\u2019s church, supposedly to kill him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Fred Djabanor\/citimonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General has filed an application at an Accra High court seeking to set aside a judgment of the circuit court that sentenced Charles Antwi, the gunman who was jailed after confessing he had wanted to kill President John Mahama. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;DQzlWT7oNMG5U1hpKHXfUHmBfrz7OpQX&#8221;]According to the state, the trial judge, justice Obiri erred in his judgment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":138652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-144944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}