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• Ex-Pope 1 year ago

  Plea what? Trying to coerce a defendant to testify contrary to the facts that the defendant believes in isn't an act of engaging in plea bargaining. In a plea bargaining scenario, the prosecutor, Deputy-Attorney General or At ...
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  Plea what? Trying to coerce a defendant to testify contrary to the facts that the defendant believes in isn't an act of engaging in plea bargaining. In a plea bargaining scenario, the prosecutor, Deputy-Attorney General or Attorney general will make it clear to the defendant that the the parties are engaged in a plea deal. That wasn't the case here. At no time did the Attorney General declare to the defendant that the subject of the discussion was about a potential plea deal. How does one claim to be engaged in a plea deal with the defendant when there was no offer on the table? And why did the Attorney General engage in a lengthy discussion on the substance of the case and even wanting the defendant to potentially testify against a co-defendant by making claims that the defendant knew to be contradicting the facts that the defendant believes or is in possession of? Dame's conduct is unethical, for he was attempting to get a defendant to testify according to the designs of the prosecution, and when the defendant refused to budge, Dame continued to engage in a legal argument with the defendant. The whole engagement between the AG and the defendant was like a scene from a court hearing where the defendant is a witness on the stand and has turned into an adverse witness and is then hammered by the AG. The defendant made it clear to Dame that he was not going testify according to the State's facts, and that should have been enough for the AG to end the discussion, assuming his plan was to offer the defendant a plea. The new plea bargain law in Ghana doesn't give the State the right to use that law as a tool to coerce a defendant into testify contrary to what the defendant believes as being the real facts. No one is trying hang Dame; Dame has hung himself with his total disregard for ethical boundaries in his dealings with a defendant. Furthermore, Dame had no business discussing the defendant's case in the presence of the Justice at whose residence the three parties found themselves together. And Dame's claim also that his meeting of the defendant at the Justice's residence was accidental also goes to show that he there had not been a prior plan to discuss a plea. And the minute that the Justice informed the Attorney General that the defendant is his cousin, the AG should have ceased all discussions of the defendant's case.

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• Edem 1 year ago

  Wow,beautifully expressed...I'm informed and educated by this piece.

  Wow,beautifully expressed...I'm informed and educated by this piece.

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• Nsia 1 year ago

  Nkwasea sem a kwakwa! which section of the law calls for the AG to use threats,inducements and all the"mmoasem" that goes with it to implement plea bargaining?.You are part of the venal bunch who should not be disturbing our ...
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  Nkwasea sem a kwakwa! which section of the law calls for the AG to use threats,inducements and all the"mmoasem" that goes with it to implement plea bargaining?.You are part of the venal bunch who should not be disturbing our ears with your your embellished "nkwaseasem". To be honest, that vile, despicable and duplicitous Attorney general should be hanged,drawn and quartered in front of millions of Ghanaians in broad daylight at Accra sports stadium.The difference between a bucket of raw manure and a dreadful lawyer like you and Godfred Dame, is the bucket."Wo ye akyeneboa paaa"!

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• Kwame 1 year ago

  I did not study jurisprudence, but the Attorney-General said that he refused the third defendant's application for plea bargain, so how can the same Attorney-General meet the third defendant on what he refused in court or dur ...
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  I did not study jurisprudence, but the Attorney-General said that he refused the third defendant's application for plea bargain, so how can the same Attorney-General meet the third defendant on what he refused in court or during filling of his plea in the court.
  I once had a case in which the prosecution witnesses did not produce any evidence, thus it means that the prosecution had no evidence to charge and prosecute me with.
  The prosecutor was annoyed with me because from the beginning I told him in the face that he had no evidence to prosecute me.
  But the court wasted my time and money that, that simple thing of no case drag on for seven (7) months.
  In the end there was no evidence adduced by the prosecution so matter dead.

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