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No Case For Nedal
posted (June 5, 2017)
In November of last year, COLA member Murphy Nedal McLaren, who is also known as "Jihad", was hauled in front of the Magistrate's Court for a marijuana possession charge. Police say that they found a weed "roach" on him. Well, today, more than 6 months later, the Chief Magistrate acquitted him.

The charge was from an encounter that McLaren had with the police back on the morning of November 10, 2016. That's when the cops say that they pulled him over at a police checkpoint in Sand Hill, on the Phillip Goldson Highway.

The cops say that the decided to search the vehicle because the officer smelled the strong aroma of weed coming from inside. They found 8.5 grams - about one quarter of an ounce of cannabis on McLaren himself, and they testified to that in a full trial against McLaren.

After listening to all the evidence, the Chief Magistrate returned this morning with her verdict, and she noted that there were too many discrepancies in the prosecution's case. With that, she acquitted him, which now releases him from the drug possession charge.

Back when the allegation first emerged, his fellow COLA members were convinced that this was a witch hunt by the Barrow Administration, for COLA's anti-government stances at the time.

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