{"id":193099,"date":"2025-03-08T03:24:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-court-halts-corruption-trial-amid-legal-review\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T03:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:24:40","slug":"liberia-supreme-court-halts-corruption-trial-amid-legal-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-court-halts-corruption-trial-amid-legal-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Supreme Court Halts Corruption Trial Amid Legal Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">Monrovia \u2014 <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Supreme Court of Liberia has ordered a temporary suspension of proceedings in the high-profile corruption case involving former senior government officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The court&#8217;s directive, issued by Justice in Chambers Ceaineh D. Clinton-Johnson Friday, halts all further action in the trial until a review is conducted on March 10, when a conference will be held to consider a writ of prohibition filed by the petitioners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"81\">The petitioners, which include former Finance Minister Samuel D&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503070439.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The Supreme Court of Liberia has ordered a temporary suspension of proceedings in the high-profile corruption case involving former senior government officials. The court&#8217;s directive, issued by Justice in Chambers Ceaineh D. Clinton-Johnson Friday, halts all further action in the trial until a review is conducted on March 10, when a conference will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00180895:ba88da51b8a0e6baee2f31480bc56460:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,4723,6185,16494,6393,4712,1107,257,6399,254,9498,6564],"class_list":["post-193099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corruption","tag-court","tag-halts","tag-legal","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-review","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme","tag-trial"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00180895:ba88da51b8a0e6baee2f31480bc56460:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}