Acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC has ruled that the police had violated the rights of Michelle Miller, when they detained her beyond the 72 hours provided by the Constitution, without applying for an extension of time.
This is according to a press release from Miller’s attorney, Eusi Anderson, who also said that the Judge has awarded his client damages in the sum of $250,000 for the breach of her right to personal liberty.
Anderson in his release said that the Court in its ruling delivered on Monday, specifically declared that the police had breached his client’s constitutional right to protection of her right to personal liberty as provided for in Article 148.
The Court, he said, also declared that the police had breached Miller’s right to protection of freedom of movement.
Miller, a former Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) registration clerk, was arrested as a suspect in the alleged election rigging of 2020, and was subsequently charged.
The criminal charge against her is still pending.
Following the March 2020 general elections, some 30-plus fraud charges were brought against now former GECOM staffers and others.
Miller was one of those persons charged in June of 2021 with conspiring to defraud voters at the polls.
