Judge: No more delays in CMU trial

Former Caribbean Maritime University President, Professor Fritz Pinnock, was yesterday told that he will have to conduct his own cross-examination of witnesses if his attorney, Hugh Wildman, remains absent from the corruption trial.

“I am expecting someone will be here to give you some assistance and be prepared to write or type and prepare cross-examination,” the judge told Pinnock ahead of the multimillion-dollar fraud trial’s resumption on Monday.

Senior Parish Judge Sanchia Burrell gave the directive in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court after being told that Wildman would be absent following the death of his mother. The attorney had sent a message noting that he would send someone but did not say when he would be present.