{"id":236397,"date":"2026-06-15T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-the-jurors-are-the-heroes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:23:14","slug":"liberia-the-jurors-are-the-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-the-jurors-are-the-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;The Jurors Are the Heroes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Counselor Amara Sheriff, lead defense attorney for Abdullah L. Kamara, praised a 12-member jury Friday after it acquitted the former Acting Chairman of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) on all corruption counts, calling the verdict &#8220;a victory for truth&#8221; and &#8220;a restoration of faith in Liberia&#8217;s jury system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The unanimous not-guilty verdict came from the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, ending a high-profile case that prosecutors said involved the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606150292.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>Counselor Amara Sheriff, lead defense attorney for Abdullah L. Kamara, praised a 12-member jury Friday after it acquitted the former Acting Chairman of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) on all corruption counts, calling the verdict &#8220;a victory for truth&#8221; and &#8220;a restoration of faith in Liberia&#8217;s jury system.&#8221; The unanimous not-guilty verdict came from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236398,"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":[258,256,9171,25869,4712,1107,257,254],"class_list":["post-236397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-heroes","tag-jurors","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","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\/236397","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=236397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}