Rev Miller’s trial resumes today
The clergyman was charged after then fugitive Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke was held in his presence on June 22, 2010.
Miller, who heads the Fellowship Tabernacle in St Andrew, was charged after police officers stopped him on the Mandela Highway with former Tivoli Gardens strongman Coke in his motor vehicle.
At the time, Coke was on the run in an attempt to elude arrest, and ultimately, extradition to the United States.
Miller’s defence is that he was transporting Coke to the US Embassy where security officers were waiting for him, in keeping with an agreement with then Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington.
When the matter resumes, Miller’s legal team will seek to enter the transcript of Ellington’s evidence before the Tivoli Enquiry admitted, due to the fact that he declined to give evidence in the trial of the clergyman.
Al Miller and Bishop Herro Blair testified previously but a
Jamaica Observer court reporter was booted from court by a female cop who insisted that the reporter leave, despite the fact that the trial is open to the public.
Blair had testified in the enquiry that Ellington had asked him in May 2010 to visit with Coke in Tivoli Gardens and inform him to surrender to him (Ellington) or directly to US officials.
— Paul Henry
