{"id":218416,"date":"2025-12-29T03:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T01:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-did-judge-gbenewelehs-ruling-undermine-the-supreme-court-mandate\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T03:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T01:28:12","slug":"liberia-did-judge-gbenewelehs-ruling-undermine-the-supreme-court-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-did-judge-gbenewelehs-ruling-undermine-the-supreme-court-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Did Judge Gbeneweleh&#8217;s Ruling Undermine the Supreme Court Mandate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The Supreme Court is expected to decide sooner whether or not Judge Peter Gbeneweleh exceeded his authority by setting aside a unanimous jury verdict outside of the statutory timeframe and without a timely ruling on the motion for a new trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The high court&#8217;s intervention stems from a writ of prohibition filed by petitioners, including Oumou Sirleaf Hage and others, seeking to restrain him from enforcing his decision to set aside a unanimous jury verdict in a fraud-in-title case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"69\">Recently, Judge&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512260386.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 Supreme Court is expected to decide sooner whether or not Judge Peter Gbeneweleh exceeded his authority by setting aside a unanimous jury verdict outside of the statutory timeframe and without a timely ruling on the motion for a new trial. The high court&#8217;s intervention stems from a writ of prohibition filed by petitioners, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218417,"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":[258,256,6185,53262,7511,4712,1107,10601,257,7870,254,9498,9829],"class_list":["post-218416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-gbenewelehs","tag-judge","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mandate","tag-news","tag-ruling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme","tag-undermine"],"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\/218416","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=218416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}