Court Acquitted A Citizen Who Was Accused In Peddling Drugs

The Court of Appeals presided over by Judge Hani Al-Hamada cancelled verdict of 15-year imprisonment with hard labor issued against a Kuwaiti citizen who was accused of possessing and peddling drugs.

The court instead acquitted the defendant and refrained from pronouncing penalty against him for the charge of drug possession. The court also decided to confiscate the seized drugs. According to the testimony of the two officers in charge of the lawsuit, they received information from secret sources about the suspect’s involved in peddling of drugs. Armed with a warrant from the Public Prosecution, the two officers and a number of securitymen raided the suspect’s house while he was sleeping. When they searched his room, they found about 250 grams of hashish. They then arrested the suspect. However, the suspect denied all the allegations against him at the Public Prosecution.

During the session at the Court of First Instance, the defense team consisted of three lawyers. Nevertheless, the court sentenced him to 15-year imprisonment with hard labor. At the Court of Appeals, lawyers Bashar Al-Nashar and Hamad Al- Ammar defended the citizen. They highlighted the lack of evidences to prove that their client was involved in drug peddling. They stressed that their client was not caught red handed while selling drugs, adding that neither a sensitive weighing scale nor different types of drugs were found in their client’s house. The lawyers stressed that the report of the two officers was not accurate, adding the lab results revealed that the level of drug content in the fl uid sample taken from their client was nil.

 

SOURCE : ARABTIMES

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