Reid trial rolls on despite lawyers’ absence
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A judge on Monday did not allow the absence of defence attorney Hugh Wildman to delay the resumption of the oft-delayed fraud trial involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid. Wildman is the attorney for one of Reid’s co-accused, former Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) President Professor Fritz Pinnock. Senior Parish Court Judge Sanchia Burrell revealed that the attorney sent an email at 4:57 p.m. last Friday, indicating that he could not be present because of two other cases he had in the