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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Failure to ensure school attendence |
Sentence: |
Exonerated After Conviction But Prior to Sentencing |
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Year Crime: |
2016 |
Year Convicted: |
2016 |
Year Cleared: |
2016 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Barbados |
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Judicially Exonerated |
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"Charles Ijui Jah Lashley and his partner Kim Isartes Ibre Jackman were codefendants wrongly convicted in September 2016 of failing to send their two children under the age of 12 to school in Barbados. The children were homeschooled. After their conviction and prior to their sentencing the prosecution attempted to amend the charges to allege the couple had not sent their 12 year old son to school "between 1st day of September, 2008 and 5th day of February, 2016,” and their 9-year-old daughter “between the 1st day of September, 2011 and 5th of February, 2016.” The couples lawyer Andrew Pilgrim argued that “At this stage I am flabbergasted by this application." He said, "the prosecution was creating an offence against his clients spanning an eight-year period in relation to a 12-year-old child. ... These are truly unique circumstances. These people are already found guilty . . . he is changing the dates." After considering the submissions, on October 29, 2016 Magistrate Douglas Frederick ordered the post-verdict acquittal of Charles Lashley and Kim Jackman and dismissed the charges based on the prosecution's failure to introduce evidence that the parents failed to keep their children from school "due to any malice." Magistrate Frederick stated: "When we heard all the evidence, these two people did not fail to register their children in a school . . . due to any malice. There is no evidence of that. In fact, they have some philosophical belief that the system will contaminate their children, so they have withheld them from that school environment."" |
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"On October 29, 2016 Magistrate Douglas Frederick ordered the post-verdict acquittal of Charles Lashley and Kim Jackman and dismissed the charges based on the prosecution's failure to introduce evidence that the parents failed to keep their children from school "due to any malice."" |
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Sex: |
Male |
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Black |
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"Barbados: Case against Rastafarians dismissed, By Staff writer, St. Lucia Times, October 29, 2016" |
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https://stluciatimes.com/2016/10/29/barbados-case-rastafarians-dismissed |
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