| Linden resident, Calvin Bailey, will have to face another trial to ascertain whether he was the cause of his 18-month-old son’s death in 2007. The man was, on Friday, remanded back into police custody as the 12-member mixed jury of his peers could not return with a unanimous vote.The case concluded in a hung jury and presiding Judge Navindra Singh, informed the accused that he would have to face the judicial process all over again. Bailey is charged with murdering his son Shaquan Nero in April 2007.On Friday the judge summed up the evidence presented by state prosecutors, Konyo Thompson and Dhanika Singh. Attorney at law George Thomas represented the accused.Murder accused; Calvin BaileyThe court had rejected a no case submission and had asked the accused to lead a defence. He did so last Thursday.Bailey,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, in his defence, blamed the mother of his child for the infant’s death. He charged that in an angry state, the mother, Bernadette Nero, stabbed the child with the intention of harming the father. Bailey said that on April 4, 2007, he had gone to see his wife and child at a relative’s house at Amelia’s Ward, Wisroc, Linden.He said that his wife was upset at him and she approached him with a knife in the right hand and a pot of a hot substance in the other hand. She later threw the hot liquid in his direction,China Jerseys Cheap, he said.After dodging the liquid,Cheap NFL Jerseys Store, Bailey said he left to return when his wife had calmed down. Bailey continued that when he returned to the house he collected his son and told his wife that all he wanted was the child and that she could keep the material possessions.He claimed that the mother then stabbed him on the arm when he attempted to leave with the child. On turning around,China Jerseys Cheap, Bailey said his wife fired another blow, stabbing the baby in his neck. The child was rushed to the hospital,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, but Bailey said that his wife’s relatives forced him to leave the facility.Bailey said that his wife called later to say that the baby had passed away and that she was going to tell the police that he (Bailey) had committed the act.When the attorney George Thomas gave his closing address he attempted to discredit both prosecution star witnesses. Thomas said the eyewitness accounts were conflicting and that they had concocted a story against the accused because they did not like him.The prosecution however felt that Bailey on the night in question had every intention of hurting his wife, but the baby was unfortunately caught in the middle. Their case was that the accused hid behind a coconut tree waiting for his wife and later attacked her while she was heading home with her baby.The prosecutor said that despite the defence saying that the witnesses gave conflicting evidence and concocted a story against the accused,Cheap Jerseys China, they both placed Bailey on the step where the matter reportedly happened.Thompson said that both witnesses saw the accused making a “cuffing” or a “thrusting” motion towards the mother who was at the time standing with the baby. An inference, she said, could be drawn despite none of the persons seeing the accused with a weapon.The mother of the dead baby never made an appearance in court. The accused said that since he had received the call about his son’s death he had never seen or heard from his wife again. |
