The High Court
in Accra will on Tuesday, July 11 deliver a ruling on the application for a stay
of proceedings in the case involving Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson.
The MP is
undergoing trial at the High Court in Accra for charges of forgery and perjury.
Lawyers for the
embattled MP have moved an application for the court to stay proceedings to
allow for the court of appeal to hear its review application on a decision by
the trial judge to hear the case on a day-to-day basis.
Lead counsel for
the team, Tsatsu Tsikata argued that any decision not to stay the proceedings
will be prejudging the appeal.
The prosecution
led by Godfred Dame, however, opposed the application.
Attorney-General,
Godfred Yeboah Dame, has told an Accra High Court that the application filed by
lead counsel for James Gyakye Qauyson, Tsatsu Tsikata, seeking to stay
proceedings pending an appeal to the Court of Appeal “is grounded on irrelevant
matters, distortion of facts and confusion.”
Arguing in
opposition to the application by Mr Tsikata, the AG stated that the application
does not show any exceptional circumstances warranting a stay of proceedings in
a criminal trial and that, same was merely designed to frustrate the criminal
trial of the Assin North Member of Parliament.
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