{"id":199749,"date":"2025-06-07T19:55:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T17:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-key-witnesses-fail-to-appear-in-unity-party-election-victory-jubilation-attack-trial\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T19:55:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T17:55:53","slug":"liberia-key-witnesses-fail-to-appear-in-unity-party-election-victory-jubilation-attack-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-key-witnesses-fail-to-appear-in-unity-party-election-victory-jubilation-attack-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Key Witnesses Fail to Appear in Unity Party Election Victory Jubilation &#8216;Attack&#8217; Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Monrovia \u2014 The prosecution of Lawrence K. Williams, accused in a gruesome &#8216;vehicular attack&#8217; against Unity Party supporters following the 2023 presidential runoff, has stalled due to the continued absence of key state witnesses, judicial sources have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">A state prosecutor, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Liberian Investigator that individuals listed to testify against the defendant have failed to appear, severely hampering efforts to proceed with the trial. The prosecution&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506060282.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 prosecution of Lawrence K. Williams, accused in a gruesome &#8216;vehicular attack&#8217; against Unity Party supporters following the 2023 presidential runoff, has stalled due to the continued absence of key state witnesses, judicial sources have confirmed. A state prosecutor, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Liberian Investigator that individuals listed to testify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,1398,3119,6900,26184,7274,4712,1107,257,7024,254,6564,4019,10099,12677],"class_list":["post-199749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attack","tag-election","tag-fail","tag-jubilation","tag-key","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-party","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial","tag-unity","tag-victory","tag-witnesses"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199749","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=199749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}