Tesha sues Government - Man once accused of leading Clansman Gang seeks damages for incarceration
Published:Thursday | June 27, 2013 | 12:00 AM
Barbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator
Tesha Miller, who is now residing overseas, has filed a suit in the Supreme Court seeking damages against the Government for his arrest and incarceration for gun offences.
Miller, who was once accused of being the leader of the Spanish Town-based Clansman Gang, was freed by the Court of Appeal in March.
Miller, who states in court documents that he is a welder and record producer, was sentenced in April 2011 to 15 years in prison for robbery with aggravation and seven years for illegal possession of firearm.
However, the Court of Appeal freed him after hearing legal arguments from attorneys-at-law Bert Samuels and Valerie Neita Robertson that the evidence presented at his trial could not support the convictions.
He was convicted in the Gun Court for robbing a man of his motor car in December 2010 in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Miller had said in his defence that he knew nothing about the robbery.
In the suit filed in the Supreme Court yesterday by Samuels, of the law firm Knight, Junor and Samuels, Miller is seeking damages for false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and assault.
Miller states that he has suffered loss and damages because on December 10, 2010, members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and or the Island Special Constabulary Force, without reasonable cause, imprisoned him and caused him to be prosecuted for the offences of illegal possession of firearm and robbery with aggravation.
He is also seeking exemplary and aggravated damages as well as special damages and legal costs.
The attorney general is named as the defendant.