After all, I predicted this outcome in an article published here on 28 July entitled Crisis in Trinidad:  Don’t let one bad judge spoil the whole judiciary...

In that article, I delineated why legal precedent and common sense militated against Sharma’s claim that the warrant for his arrest - for attempting to pervert the course of justice in former PM Basdeo Panday’s case - was politically motivated.  Moreover, I dismissed misguided criticisms by legal eminences, including leaders of the T&T and Grenada Bar Associations, who unwittingly enabled Sharma’s hubris in this case by criticizing the Attorney General’s efforts to prosecute him for his probable wrongdoing.

Indeed, it’s very likely that this unwarranted criticism emboldened Sharma and his legal hired guns to plunge Trinidad into a constitutional crisis last summer, which led to this ill-fated appeal to the Privy Council.

But now that the highest court has ruled on the matter, I expect my prediction to be fully vindicated, which I presented on 28 July as follows:

“For what it’s worth, when all is said and done, I fully expect to see Sharma following Panday in the dock and, ultimately, in jail...”

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