{"id":243980,"date":"2019-02-12T08:36:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=243980"},"modified":"2019-02-12T11:40:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T09:40:05","slug":"american-murder-accused-on-trial-without-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=243980","title":{"rendered":"American murder accused on trial without lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/American-murder-accused-on-trial-without-lawyer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-244035\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/American-murder-accused-on-trial-without-lawyer.png\" alt=\"American murder accused on trial without lawyer\" width=\"720\" height=\"957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/American-murder-accused-on-trial-without-lawyer.png 720w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/American-murder-accused-on-trial-without-lawyer-226x300.png 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eba Kanduvazu<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Thomas, who along with Kevin Townsend is on trial for murdering Andre Heckmair, had an application to halt court proceedings in order for him to yet again obtain the services of state sponsored lawyer, set aside.<br \/>\nJudge Christie Liebenberg dismissed the application when the trial resumed in the Windhoek High Court on the grounds that Thomas exhausted the state\u2019s goodwill with regard to providing lawyers. Tho<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">mas already had several lawyers representing him on previous occasions during the trial and pre-trial period but they withdrew from his defence because of unattainable instructions.<br \/>\nThe murder trial resumed at the start of this week when the final state witness was called to testify.<br \/>\nThe delaying tactics exhibited by the two murder accused over the past eight years is partially to blame for their trial now entering its fourth year.<br \/>\nThe two American nationals were arrested eight years ago at a guesthouse in Windhoek after detectives connected them to the murder of Heckmair. The accused persons have been in custody since their arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eba Kanduvazu Marcus Thomas, who along with Kevin Townsend is on trial for murdering Andre Heckmair, had an application to halt court proceedings in order for him to yet again obtain the services of state sponsored lawyer, set aside. Judge Christie Liebenberg dismissed the application when the trial resumed in the Windhoek High Court on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":244035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>American murder accused on trial without lawyer - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marcus Thomas, who along with Kevin Townsend is on trial for murdering Andre Heckmair, had an application to halt court proceedings in order for him\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=243980\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"American murder accused on trial without lawyer - 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