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27314: Hermantin(News)Hemisphere news digest (fwd)






Leonie Hermantin



Sun Sentinel

Hemisphere news digest

Wire reports

January 21, 2006



Haiti
Hemisphere news digest




Wire reports

January 21, 2006



Haiti

Murder charge for priest dropped

PORT-AU-PRINCE · A judge in Haiti has dropped a murder charge against a jailed Roman Catholic priest, but indicted him for illegal weapons possession and criminal conspiracy, the cleric's lawyer said Friday.

The Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, a supporter of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has been in prison since July in connection with the murder of the prominent Haitian journalist and poet Jacques Roche.

Lawyer Mario Joseph denies the allegations.


PORT-AU-PRINCE · A judge in Haiti has dropped a murder charge against a jailed Roman Catholic priest, but indicted him for illegal weapons possession and criminal conspiracy, the cleric's lawyer said Friday.

The Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, a supporter of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has been in prison since July in connection with the murder of the prominent Haitian journalist and poet Jacques Roche.

Lawyer Mario Joseph denies the allegations.