Liberia: ‘The Jurors Are the Heroes’

Counselor Amara Sheriff, lead defense attorney for Abdullah L. Kamara, praised a 12-member jury Friday after it acquitted the former Acting Chairman of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) on all corruption counts, calling the verdict “a victory for truth” and “a restoration of faith in Liberia’s jury system.”

The unanimous not-guilty verdict came from the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, ending a high-profile case that prosecutors said involved the…