Criminal Court “A” Judge, Roosevelt Z. Willie, has granted defense application to subpoena Monrovia City Mayor, Jefferson Koijee, and Varlee Telleh, a senior officer of the Monrovia City Police.
The decision of the court is in response to defense lawyers’ request for subpoena decu tecum and ad testificandum to be served on Mayor Koijee to present to the court Varlee Telleh, along with his numbers that were used from February 21, 2023 to February 25, 2023, and to also testify to said numbers as to whom he called within the timeframe mentioned.
The subpoena request also wants Orange GSM and Lonestar GSM to present the telephone numbers that were being used by Cllr. Gloria Musu Scott, and that the court makes the GSM companies to disclose who has been using those numbers since her phones went missing on the night of the incident.
Defense counsels also asked the court to subpoena the two GSM companies to trace the gadgets of the said phone numbers from February 22, 2023 up to November 30, 2023, because the GSM companies had earlier testified that they have the ability to locate the phones.
In their resistance, prosecution lawyers asked the court to deny the defense application on ground that it is unnecessary, lacks specificity, is irrelevant and intended to delay the trial.
But in his ruling, Judge Roosevelt Z. Willie stated that the issues raised by the defense lawyers in their application are relevant to the case and are therefore granted.
Therefore, the subpoena directs those individuals and institutions concerned to appear with the documents that have been referred to in the application on Monday, December 4, 2023, at 10:00 a.m.