Sentenced back in 2017 to 65 years for the murder of his brother-in-law, Lakeraj Fredericks filed an appeal against his conviction and sentence arguing among other things that the trial judge did not properly put his defence to the jury, and that the sentence imposed is severe.
Fredericks (the now-appellant) had been convicted by a jury for shooting and killing Clifton Bonus sometime between June 1st and June 8th of 2011 at a farm in Linden.
When the matter came up for hearing yesterday morning before the Guyana Court of Appeal, Fredericks’ attorney Rachael Bakker argued that the judge did not sufficiently guard against imputations of fact by the jury regarding evidence introduced in the trial by some witnesses, nor was he “careful to properly assess, advice and caution” the jury concerning the nature of certain evidence.