"About two days or two days anyway before Good Friday, we were both Roman Catholic and Mr Labrador had kind of left the religion and was trying to get back in, and I had a lot of Catholic bibles and prayer books, I was doing some Lenten praying in the evening, and Mr Labrador asked me did I think God would forgive him if he had anything to do with killing someone. And I told him that I was uncomfortable with that and he ought to talk to Father Peters who was the priest here in Road Town with St. William's Church. At that point, I asked him directly, did he have anything to do with killing Lois McMillen and he answered me yes. And I asked him why. And he said that it was over money and that she was no good. And I asked him how, how did that happen. And he said that they were driving from West End, and they were arguing, the argument got heated and that she tried to pull into the police station and he prevented that and that one thing led to another; it got out of control and that he dragged her into the water and put his foot on the back of her neck and drowned her. He then went on to say that the jeep, her jeep, was taken to the ferry landing and that he took a trail from there up to Mr Spicer's house and I believe [it] took about 45 minutes."
"The indications that the evidence may be tainted by an improper motive must be found in the evidence. But this is not an exacting test, and the surrounding circumstances may provide all that is needed to justify the inference that he may have been serving his own interest in giving that evidence. Where such indications are present, the judge should draw the jury's attention to these indications and their possible significance. He should then advise them to be cautious before accepting the prisoner's evidence."
"It cannot be over-emphasised that the purpose of a criminal prosecution is not to obtain a conviction; it is to lay before a jury what the Crown considers to be credible evidence relevant to what is alleged to be a crime. Counsel have a duty to see that all available legal proof of the facts is presented; it should be done firmly and pressed to its legitimate strength, but it must also be done fairly. The role of prosecutor excludes any notion of winning or losing; his function is a matter of public duty than which in civil life there can be none charged with greater personal responsibility. It is to be efficiently performed with an ingrained sense of the dignity, the seriousness and the justness of judicial proceedings."
"This woman is playing with our grey matter. She figure that they can come from their big country and fool people here"
"If that is the American way, we in the West Indies know it is different"
"We have respect for our judges and no one is going to come and tell our judge he is a liar. And later on I am going to show that lying is a natural tendency of the Labradors."
"with a friend like that who needs enemies?"
"Without prejudice to the generality of the preceding section of this Ordinance (supplementary powers), where evidence is tendered to the Court of Appeal under that section, the Court of Appeal shall, unless they are satisfied that the evidence if received would not afford any ground for allowing the appeal, exercise its power under that section of receiving it if – (a) it appears to them that the evidence is likely to be credible and would have been admissible at the trial on an issue which is the subject of the appeal; and (b) they are satisfied that it was not adduced at the trial, but that there is a reasonable explanation for the failure so to adduce it."
"For the purposes of an appeal in any criminal cause or matter, the Court of Appeal may, if they think it necessary or expedient in the interest of justice – (a) exercise any or all of the powers conferred by section 32 on the Court of Appeal …"
"100. During the hearing of this appeal, Counsel for Labrador asked this Court to look at statements of numerous witnesses who gave no evidence at the trial, in order to arrive at a just decision in this matter. These statements were all unsworn and untested. As I understood Mr Fitzgerald, he did not intend calling these witnesses, he was not reopening the case, and he was not asking for a retrial. His sole purpose was for us to use the statements, as they were, against the case for the Crown. 101. I have never before encountered this procedure as suggested by Mr Fitzgerald. I know that the Privy Council, within recent times, have been encouraging a procedure for the production of statements at the hearing of appeals before that body. However, if I am not mistaken, when they do so, they would purport to act under the fresh evidence rule and they would then refer the matter to the inferior tribunal to have the witnesses testify and the evidence tested. I do not subscribe to the view that a Court of Appeal could arrive at a just decision, and quash a conviction, relying on unsworn and untested statements, as submitted by Mr Fitzgerald. To accede to such a submission would be to create a procedure of horrendous magnitude. 102. On this question of doing justice, I may have been persuaded by this argument of learned Queen's Counsel, if what he sought to do was e.g. to produce a legally authenticated official document, say, Plante's record of previous convictions, had Plante not admitted his dishonest and criminal "degrees"
"Testimony of RELEASEE: RELEASEE was a witness in a murder trial in the British Virgin Islands. He was under a court order to remain in the Virgin Islands and when the court order expired, the Crown Counsel Terrance WILLIAMS came up with these charges so that RELEASEE would remain there to testify in the murder trial. RELEASEE was never brought before a Judge and he never pled guilty to the charges. RELEASEE was held for 60 days but he was never sentenced."