{"id":239255,"date":"2026-07-22T06:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-tweah-rejects-mistrial-ruling\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T06:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:48:11","slug":"liberia-tweah-rejects-mistrial-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-tweah-rejects-mistrial-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Tweah Rejects Mistrial Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>&#8212; Court orders new trial over jury tampering<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia, July 21, 2026 &#8212; Former Finance and Development Planning Minister Samuel D. Tweah Jr. has rejected a Criminal Court &#8220;C&#8221; ruling that overturned his not-guilty verdict and ordered a new trial following an investigation into alleged jury tampering and misconduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Judge Ousman F. Feika issued the ruling Tuesday in the US$19 million corruption case involving the Republic of Liberia, through the Ministry of Justice, against&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607220073.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>&#8212; Court orders new trial over jury tampering TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia, July 21, 2026 &#8212; Former Finance and Development Planning Minister Samuel D. Tweah Jr. has rejected a Criminal Court &#8220;C&#8221; ruling that overturned his not-guilty verdict and ordered a new trial following an investigation into alleged jury tampering and misconduct. Judge Ousman F. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,4712,1107,30876,257,8440,7870,254,23996],"class_list":["post-239255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mistrial","tag-news","tag-rejects","tag-ruling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tweah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239255","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=239255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}