Beauty queen Lindsay Shivers attorney claims legally fatal evidence issues debunk murder plot against ex-NFLer husband
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.Shirley 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.”Shirley 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 Penal Code for an alleged act committed at a time when the undisputed evidence establishes that she was not in The Bahamas,” he said.“This is not a technicality; it is a legally fatal defect in the DPP’s evidence, its charges and its continued prosecution of Lindsay,” he said.Shirley said that he was “shocked and disappointed” that Bahamas authorities were continuing to pursue prosecution against Shiver, saying that they have the obligation to drop all charges.“Lindsay should never have been subjected to a prosecution that the Bahamian government lacked the legal authority to bring,” he said.
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