Gabriel King was murdered in January 2022.
.png)
Attorney Chukwuemeka Cameron
By Racquel Porter
The Constitutional Court will on or before September 29 rule whether Amoi Leon Issa's rights to privacy were breached when a parish court judge granted permission to the police to search her cellular phone.
Mrs Issa is the mother of nine-year-old Gabriel King who was murdered last January.
She also wants the High Court to determine whether the production order granted by the judge was necessary and demonstrably justified.
The month-end deadline for Mrs Issa to hand over the password to the police has been extended to the same date.
Mrs Leon Issa, who is suing the State for continued violation of her privacy rights as well as her right to informational privacy, is also seeking to have the judge's order quashed and several declarations deeming different aspects of the judge's order unconstitutional.
She also wants vindicatory damages.
The claimant filed the lawsuit after St. James Parish Court Judge Sasha Ashley granted a production order to Constable Julian Frazer last September for Issa to provide the phone's passcode to facilitate access to data as part of the police investigation into her son's murder.
The cop is named in the claim as the first defendant, the Police Commissioner is the second while the judge is listed as third and the Attorney General, fourth.
Following Friday's hearing, Mrs Issa's attorney, Chukwuemeka Cameron, told Radio Jamaica News that his client is "happy that she had the oopportunity to seek to vindicate her right to privacy before the Full Court" and can now await the decision to be handed down.
comments powered by Disqus
All feeds
