Liberia: Complainants Must Follow Their Cases in Court to Ensure Speedy Trials

The courts, for the past three years, have been lambasted by defense lawyers and state prosecutors, including the solicitor general, for overcrowded dockets, while prisons remained jam-packed beyond capacity with mostly pretrial suspects.

There are reports that most of the detainees have neither been indicted and arraigned, while those detainees already charged and indicted await court appearance fruitlessly only to see court terms come and go without their cases being assigned for trial. The solicitor-general has repeatedly blamed crowded court dockets for the overcrowding of our prisons, and urged judges to speed up the trial of cases on their dockets.

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