{"id":205967,"date":"2025-08-31T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-judge-grants-postponement-of-koffa-others-trial-after-prosecutors-delay-evidence-release\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:53:51","slug":"liberia-judge-grants-postponement-of-koffa-others-trial-after-prosecutors-delay-evidence-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-judge-grants-postponement-of-koffa-others-trial-after-prosecutors-delay-evidence-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Judge Grants Postponement of Koffa, Others&#8217; Trial After Prosecutors Delay Evidence Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The long-awaited trial of former House Speaker J. Fonati Koffa and other co-defendants accused in the Capitol Building arson case was pushed to next week after Criminal Court &#8216;A&#8217; granted a defense motion citing late delivery of prosecution evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">The courtroom at the Temple of Justice was packed Thursday with family members and curious onlookers as Koffa appeared alongside Representatives Abu B. Kamara, Dixon Seboe, and Jacob Dabee. Presiding Judge Roosevelt Z. Willie ruled to defer the case to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508290147.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>The long-awaited trial of former House Speaker J. Fonati Koffa and other co-defendants accused in the Capitol Building arson case was pushed to next week after Criminal Court &#8216;A&#8217; granted a defense motion citing late delivery of prosecution evidence. The courtroom at the Temple of Justice was packed Thursday with family members and curious onlookers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205968,"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":[258,256,8036,7013,10875,7511,34771,4712,1107,257,13763,11576,6011,254,6564],"class_list":["post-205967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-delay","tag-evidence","tag-grants","tag-judge","tag-koffa","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-postponement","tag-prosecutors","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial"],"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\/205967","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=205967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}