PHILIPSBURG:--- The prosecutor’s Office has lodged an appeal against the verdicts of the Court in First Instance in the Zeepaard and Sardine investigations against former Member of Parliament, R.L. handed down on Wednesday August 24, 2016. R.L. was convicted by the Court of First Instance to a one (1) month jail sentence, fully suspended for illegal firearms possession. The Court in First Instance acquitted R.L. of the charges of threat against former United People's (UP) party Member of Parliament Jules James on June
11, 2012 and Isidore York on November 28.
The appeal of the Prosecutor’s Office is against the verdict of one (1) month suspended jail sentence for illegal firearms possession and the acquittal for the two charges of threat. The Prosecutor’s Office had asked for a jail sentence of one (1) year of which six (6) months suspended, 80 hours of community service and a probation period of two (2) years against R.L. for one charge of illegal firearms possession and two charges of
threat.
