{"id":247039,"date":"2026-10-13T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-chief-justice-pushes-to-abolish-jury-trials-sen-dillon-fires-back\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:00:12","slug":"liberia-chief-justice-pushes-to-abolish-jury-trials-sen-dillon-fires-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-chief-justice-pushes-to-abolish-jury-trials-sen-dillon-fires-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Chief Justice Pushes to Abolish Jury Trials &#8211; Sen. Dillon Fires Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><em>Published:<\/em> October 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><strong>MONROVIA &#8212;<\/strong> Chief Justice Yarmie Quiqui Gbeisay Sr. has called for the abolition of Liberia&#8217;s trial jury system over widespread allegations of jury tampering, drawing strong opposition from Montserrado County Sen. Abraham Darius Dillon, who says the proposal threatens a fundamental constitutional right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The chief justice made the controversial proposal during the opening of the Supreme Court&#8217;s October Term, citing reported incidents of bribery, intimidation and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610130096.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Published: October 12, 2026 MONROVIA &#8212; Chief Justice Yarmie Quiqui Gbeisay Sr. has called for the abolition of Liberia&#8217;s trial jury system over widespread allegations of jury tampering, drawing strong opposition from Montserrado County Sen. Abraham Darius Dillon, who says the proposal threatens a fundamental constitutional right. The chief justice made the controversial proposal during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":247040,"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":[19492,258,256,6510,29898,8745,15004,6852,4712,1107,257,16296,13557,254,14958],"class_list":["post-247039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-abolish","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chief","tag-dillon","tag-fires","tag-jury","tag-justice","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-pushes","tag-sen","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trials"],"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\/247039","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=247039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}