{"id":14353,"date":"2023-11-29T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=14353"},"modified":"2023-11-29T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:33:22","slug":"attorney-tameika-clarke-awarded-700000-in-damages-for-false-imprisonment-by-socu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/attorney-tameika-clarke-awarded-700000-in-damages-for-false-imprisonment-by-socu\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney Tameika Clarke Awarded $700,000 in Damages for False Imprisonment by SOCU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>In a significant legal development, Attorney at Law Tameika Clarke has been granted $700,000 in damages by the Supreme Court of Judicature for false imprisonment by the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case stemmed from Clarke&#8217;s detainment by SOCU last year for advising her client to remain silent during attempts to take a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the unjust detainment, Attorney General Anil Nandlall revealed that the state offered a settlement of $2 million, which was rejected by Clarke. In response, Clarke&#8217;s attorneys proposed a counteroffer of $50 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Justice Roxanne George, presiding over the case, granted $700,000 in damages and urged the Guyana Police to incorporate issues like these in their training to prevent similar occurrences in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Attorney General expressed regret over the incident, offering apologies to Clarke on behalf of the state, with the Guyana Police Force also issuing an apology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This judgment serves as a notable legal precedent and emphasizes the importance of protecting individuals&#8217; rights and freedoms, even in the context of law enforcement actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant legal development, Attorney at Law Tameika Clarke has been granted $700,000 in damages by the Supreme Court of Judicature for false imprisonment by the Special Organized Crime&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14355,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions\/14355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}