FIRST ON FOX: Accused of conspiring with her alleged Bahamian lover to hire a hitman to kill her ex-NFL player husband, Georgia mom and beauty queen Lindsay Shiver should be free from prosecution thanks to "legally fatal" problems with the evidence, one of her attorneys said.Her U.S.attorney argues Bahamian prosecutors lack the jurisdiction to pursue murder-for-hire charges over alleged conduct that took place while Shiver was in the United States."Lindsay Shiver is not guilty of the crimes alleged against her by the Bahamian Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Period," attorney Craig Shirley told Fox News Digital in a statement.ALABAMA MOTHER SENTENCED TO LIFE FOR HIRING HITMAN TO KILL HER CHILD'S FATHER OVER CUSTODY DISPUTELindsay Shriver and her lover, Adrien Bethel, far left, are accused of plotting to kill her husband and the father of their three boys, Robert Shiver.(Daniel William McKnight/ Instagram)FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XShirley said the indictment alleges Shiver was in the Bahamas on July 16, 2023, when the purported conspiracy occurred, but he maintains her defense has provided prosecutors and the court with evidence from multiple independent sources showing she was in the U.S.
that day."The DPP must prove it.Meaning that, as a threshold requirement, the DPP is required to prove that Lindsay was in the Bahamas on July 16, 2023," Shirley said.
"It cannot."DAUGHTER OF MISSING AMERICAN WOMAN TOUCHES DOWN IN BAHAMAS, SLAMS STEPDAD AFTER HE FLED AMID INVESTIGATIONLindsay Shiver leaves supreme court in the Bahamas, Aug.9, 2023.
Shiver, 36, is accused of plotting to kill her husband, Robert Shiver, who was a star football player at Auburn University.(Daniel William McKnight)SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWSShirley argued that the discrepancy is not only a factual dispute but a jurisdictional defect that prevents the Bahamian government from prosecuting Shiver under its own penal code."Lindsay cannot be prosecuted under the Bahamian Pe...