Co-Defendant Challenges Judge's Ruling Granting Ex-VP Taylor House Arrest, Calls It Unlawful
MONROVIA, Sept. 5 -- A day after Criminal Court "C" ordered former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor moved from Monrovia Central Prison to guarded house detention on medical grounds, a co-defendant in the same narcotics case has formally challenged the ruling, arguing that Judge Ousman F. Feika had no legal authority to grant it and asking him to reverse himself.In a filing captio ned "Exceptions to His Honor Ousman F. Feika's Ruling in Granting Co-Defendant Jewel Howard Taylor Compassionate Release," Garpue K. Wonlue takes issue with the September 4 order on six separate grounds, most of them turning on a single argument: that the law Judge Feika relied on does not apply to someone in Taylor's position.The Case So FarTaylor, Liberia's v...
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