Cocaine turned baking soda before coming to court-CJ's report
The four-member committee set up by the Chief Justice Georgina Woode to investigate the cocaine-turned-baking soda has concluded in its final report that the swapping was done before the exhibit was tendered in court on September 27.
The Justice Agnes Dodzie-led committee's report released on Tuesday concluded that cocaine has a pungent smell but based on corroborated evidence before it the substance alleged to be cocaine had no such smell when tendered in court.
The report said, “evidence before the Committee established that cocaine has a pungent smell, an evidence which has been corroborated by the Analyst and that when it is opened, the scent will be smelt by everybody in whatever form it is, either powdered or compressed.
“The State Attorney and the defense counsel who were present in Court on the day that it was opened confirmed that the substance had no such pungent smell. “
It added that the opening and the observation by those present was done on 27th September 2011 when the seal was broken in open Court for the first time.
The committee concluded that if there were any swapping of the cocaine with any other substance it was done before the substance was tendered in Court on the 27 September, 2011 adding that evidence before the committee proved that the substance tendered in Court on that day was not cocaine.
Source: Citifmonline.com
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