A magistrate has abstained from examining a former boxer’s claim that his continued preventive custody, five months after being charged with robbing an elderly person at knifepoint, was illegal. 43-year-old Sean Sinclair Pace had been denied bail during his arraignment in December last year when he was charged with aggravated theft and detaining a person illegally. This morning, lawyer Jose Herrera filed a habeas corpus application on Pace’s behalf, claiming that his continued detention was illegal. In a decree handed down sometime later, the magistrate abstained from taking the request further, observing that the acts of the case had been sent back to the Attorney General on April 13. She pointed out that the Criminal Code stipulated that applications filed in connection with a compilation of evidence whose file was being examined by the Attorney General, before the Bill of Indictment is issued, the application had to be filed before the Criminal Court.
