{"id":208860,"date":"2025-10-04T00:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-court-reserves-ruling-on-evidence-challenge-in-capitol-arson-case\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T00:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:15:56","slug":"liberia-supreme-court-reserves-ruling-on-evidence-challenge-in-capitol-arson-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-court-reserves-ruling-on-evidence-challenge-in-capitol-arson-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Supreme Court Reserves Ruling On Evidence Challenge in Capitol Arson Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Monrovia \u2014 The Supreme Court of Liberia has held off on ruling in a major evidentiary dispute in the Capitol Building arson case involving former House Speaker Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa, three sitting lawmakers, and several co-defendants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Associate Justice Jamesetta H. Wolokollie, presiding in Chambers, reserved judgment after hearing arguments on a writ of certiorari filed by defense lawyers. The petition seeks to exclude key pieces of evidence submitted by state prosecutors, including an alleged&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510030497.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 held off on ruling in a major evidentiary dispute in the Capitol Building arson case involving former House Speaker Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa, three sitting lawmakers, and several co-defendants. Associate Justice Jamesetta H. Wolokollie, presiding in Chambers, reserved judgment after hearing arguments on a writ of certiorari [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208861,"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":[258,256,23290,9887,6683,7485,6185,7013,4712,1107,257,11008,7870,254,9498],"class_list":["post-208860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arson","tag-capitol","tag-case","tag-challenge","tag-court","tag-evidence","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-reserves","tag-ruling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme"],"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\/208860","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=208860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}