By: Frank P. Martin
MONROVIA: The Supreme Court of Liberia is expected to begin hearing an appeal by former Chief Justice Gloria Musu Scott and three of her members, who were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her daughter, Charloe Musu.
The Supreme Court issued a notice of assignment to both prosecution and defense lawyers.
The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, July 16, 2024, at 11:00 am.
Gloria Scott, along with Gertrude Newton, Rebecca Wisner, and Alice Johnson were tried and sentenced to Lifetime imprisonment by Judge Roosevelt Willie of Criminal ‘A’ on charges of Murder, Criminal Conspiracy, and making false report to Law Enforcement Officials during the March Term of Court in 2024.
She and her relatives had suffered detention relative to the gruesome killing of Charloe Musu in their Brewerville residence, outside Monrovia.
Following the March Term of Court’s sentence by the Resident Judge of the Criminal Court A, the legal Counsels of Cllr. Scott and the three others filed appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn the Lifetime imprisonment against their clients.
Predicated upon the appeal, the Supreme Court of Liberia, through its Clerk, Cllr. Sam Mamulu notified the legal Counsels representing Cllr Scott and three others including the Ministry of Justice for legal argument before the Court on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 11:00 A.M.
Counselors Amara Sheriff, Jimmy Saah Bombo, Frances Johnson Allison, T. Negbalee Warner, and Richard J. Scott were legal counsels who received the citation on behalf of their client while the Supreme Court of Liberia also informed the Ministry of Justice on the official date of the case resumption.
“YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to notify the Parties in the above Entitled Cause of Action or their Legal Representative(s) that the Honorable Supreme Court of the Republic of Liberia will hear ARGUMENT in said cause on the 16th day of July A.D. 2024, at the hour of 11:00 a.m., and that they are cited to be present for same. AND HAVE YOU THERE THIS NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT,” the high court said.
The former Liberian Chief Justice was convicted by numinous verdicts of jury for the murder of 29 years old Charloe Musu, on February 22, 2023.
