{"id":200347,"date":"2025-06-17T14:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-judge-rebukes-lephuthing-for-misusing-court-process\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:04:01","slug":"lesotho-judge-rebukes-lephuthing-for-misusing-court-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-judge-rebukes-lephuthing-for-misusing-court-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Judge Rebukes Lephuthing for &#8216;Misusing&#8217; Court Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><em><em>&#8211;In ongoing Joki murder trial<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">IN A dramatic development in the ongoing high-profile murder trial of renowned radio personality, Ralikonelo Joki, High Court Judge T\u0161eliso Mokoko has sharply criticized Crown prosecutor Advocate Christopher Lephuthing for misusing legal procedures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The judge&#8217;s rebuke came after Adv Lephuthing ordered the arrest of key witness, T\u0161epang Monatli, in the middle of the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The trial, which also concerns the murders of Parliament Committee Coordinator, Mothibe&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506120629.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;In ongoing Joki murder trial IN A dramatic development in the ongoing high-profile murder trial of renowned radio personality, Ralikonelo Joki, High Court Judge T\u0161eliso Mokoko has sharply criticized Crown prosecutor Advocate Christopher Lephuthing for misusing legal procedures. The judge&#8217;s rebuke came after Adv Lephuthing ordered the arrest of key witness, T\u0161epang Monatli, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200348,"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":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6185,7511,51657,4717,1407,38648,257,5755,31233,254],"class_list":["post-200347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-judge","tag-lephuthing","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-misusing","tag-news","tag-process","tag-rebukes","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/200347","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}