DPP Withdraws Murder Charges Following Appeal Court Ruling
Jason Millette and Shalom Bailey are no longer facing murder charges in connection with the death of Xavier Thomas, who was killed in Cedar Grove on August 18, 2017.
The Director of Public Prosecutions filed a nolle prosequi to formally withdraw the charges against both men.
This prosecutorial decision comes after the Court of Appeal’s ruling last week, which quashed the murder conviction of their co-accused, Dorian Marshall. The appellate judges found that the evidence presented to secure Marshall’s conviction was deficient, prompting them to overturn both his conviction and his 40-year prison sentence. The court went further, ruling that Marshall cannot face retrial for the offense.
Similarly, in 2023 Bailey and Marshall who were also defendants in another homicide – the 2017 killing of Charlesworth Richards Jr., a 42-year-old man who died in Ras Freeman, Liberta-walked free.
Richards was shot multiple times and died at the scene after assailants allegedly breached his property by climbing over a rear gate. The attackers reportedly demanded money and drugs before stealing Richards’ SUV to escape.
When police processed the crime scene on June 21, 2017, they uncovered spent ammunition shells along with an extensive cannabis cultivation operation, including thousands of marijuana plants and several pounds of processed cannabis.
The prosecution dropped this case in 2023.
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