Georgetown: A battery of eleven lawyers Friday appeared at the Vigilance Magistrate’s court to represent their colleague Ryan Crawford who expletively abused a traffic ranks on September 13, 2018 during a routine stop.
He reportedly used expletives over 30 times in the almost four minutes of video.
Crawford’s lawyers included Sanjeev Datadin, Aneesa Chow, Ganesh Hira, Ramesh Rajkumar, Teni Housty, Pauline Chase, Chandra Sohan, Horatio Edmonson, Lloyd Thomas, Joel Edmond and Eon Smith.
The charges filed against him included obscene language, riotous behaviour, prohibition of tinted glass, failure to produce driver’s license and unfit motor vehicle.
Magistrate Peter Hugh placed Attorney-at-law Ryan Crawford on his own recognisance after the prosecutor, Inspector Shavion Jupiter did not object to bail after the charges were read.
The matter will be called again on October 10,2018 at the Mahaica Magistrate Court.
However, the usually courtesy which is extended to lawyers who show up at court to represent clients were not immediately granted to the lawyers for Crawford by the magistrate.
He informed them that he would first like to complete his matters which were filed in the Vigilance Magisterial District before moving on to the matters which were filed in the Mahaica Magisterial District and shifted to Vigilance.
During that period, Crawford and his lawyers had to wait. He was neatly dressed in his dark blue tuxedo and sky blue shirt and leather brown shoes.
Crawford did not speak with the press when approached for a comment but his lead attorney SanjivDatadin did.
He said that they felt frustrated having gone to Mahaica then Cove and John before finally arriving at the Vigilance Magistrate court for the matter.
He was asked if he thought it was a deliberate effort to frustrate him and his team but he could not say.
On the day in question, a police corporal pulled over the attorney to carry out a “routine” check of his documents when the lawyer let loose on him a barrage of expletives and bluntly refused to cooperate or follow any of the instruction which the police were asking him to comply with.
He subsequently drove off before boasting that he does not care what the
police does and that nothing can happen to him.
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