{"id":206256,"date":"2025-09-04T11:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-court-orders-full-trial-in-princess-zuo-murder-case\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:01:50","slug":"liberia-court-orders-full-trial-in-princess-zuo-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-court-orders-full-trial-in-princess-zuo-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Court Orders Full Trial in Princess Zuo Murder Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Criminal Court &#8220;B&#8221; in Montserrado County has formally set aside a plea bargain submitted on behalf of defendant Bill Jallah, who is standing trial for the alleged murder of 26-year-old Princess Zuo-a case that has gripped public attention since the tragic incident unfolded in Paynesville earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Presiding Judge Wesseh Alphonsus Wesseh ruled on Tuesday, August 27, 2025, that Liberian law prohibits plea agreements in capital offense cases, effectively nullifying the defense&#8217;s six-count&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509040074.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>Criminal Court &#8220;B&#8221; in Montserrado County has formally set aside a plea bargain submitted on behalf of defendant Bill Jallah, who is standing trial for the alleged murder of 26-year-old Princess Zuo-a case that has gripped public attention since the tragic incident unfolded in Paynesville earlier this year. Presiding Judge Wesseh Alphonsus Wesseh ruled on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206257,"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":[258,256,6683,6185,10170,4712,1107,304,257,6186,6575,254,6564,49348],"class_list":["post-206256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-court","tag-full","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-princess","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial","tag-zuo"],"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\/206256","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=206256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}