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At least two po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts agree that the rul­ing in favour of David Lee in his mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice charge, is a boost for him and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) as the Gen­er­al Elec­tion cam­paign in­ten­si­fies.

Act­ing Chief Mag­is­trate Chris­tine Charles yes­ter­day dis­missed the charges of con­spir­a­cy to de­fraud and mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice against Lee, af­ter up­hold­ing a no-case sub­mis­sion pre­sent­ed by his le­gal team, led by Wayne Sturge and Mario Mer­ritt of Regius Cham­bers.

Mag­is­trate Charles ruled that the pros­e­cu­tion had pre­sent­ed in­suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence to sus­tain the charges or pro­ceed to tri­al.