The Courtroom of Cassation upheld a September 2022 choice by the State Safety Courtroom (SSC) that sentenced a person to 5 years in jail after being convicted of possessing unlawful narcotics in Aqaba in January 2022.
The courtroom discovered the defendant responsible of possessing Cannabis in his residence on January 31.
The SSC sentenced the defendant to seven years in jail on the costs and ordered him to pay JD 7,000 in fines.
Nonetheless, the courtroom determined to cut back the sentence to 5 years in jail and lowered the fantastic to JD5,000 “to present the defendant a second probability in life.”
Courtroom paperwork stated the Anti-Narcotics Division (AND) discovered the accused was in possession of unlawful medicine and positioned him beneath surveillance.
On the day of the raid, brokers of the legislation enforcement company raided the home of the accused.
“The defendant resisted arrest however was ultimately subdued by AND officers and nobody was injured in the course of the raid,” courtroom paperwork stated.
Officers searched his residence and located a small quantity of cannabis, courtroom paperwork added.
The defendant challenged the SSC's choice by his lawyer, who claimed that the prosecution didn’t present any strong proof implicating his shopper.
The lawyer additionally argued that SSC's prosecution witnesses supplied contradictory testimony in the course of the trial.
In the meantime, the SSC prosecution requested the upper courtroom to uphold the sentence and fantastic imposed on the accused.
The highest courtroom held that the SSC had adopted correct procedures in issuing the sentences in opposition to the accused.
The Courtroom of Cassation was composed of judges Yassin Abdullat, Nayef Samarat, Hammad Ghzawi, Mohammad Khashashneh and Qassem Dughmi.
