{"id":110992,"date":"2025-02-25T13:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/obado-to-present-defense-in-sharon-otienos-murder-in-april\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T13:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:04:19","slug":"obado-to-present-defense-in-sharon-otienos-murder-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/obado-to-present-defense-in-sharon-otienos-murder-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Obado to present defense in Sharon Otieno\u2019s murder in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 25 \u2013 Former Migori Governor Okoth Obado will present his defense in the murder trial of Rongo University student Sharon Otieno from April 23 to April 25.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) announced that Obado had informed trial judge Lady Justice Cecilia Githua of his intention to give sworn evidence in his defense.<\/p>\n<p>Obado told the court he would also present two witnesses during the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>His co-accused, Michael Oyamo and Caspal Obiero, will present their defenses from May 19 to May 23, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court placed the accused on their defense after the prosecution, led by Catherine Mwaniki, Gikui Gichui, Allen Mulama, and Bessie Gikonyo, concluded its case in June 2024. The prosecution presented 42 witnesses, including a journalist,\u201d the ODPP stated.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled that the DPP had established a <em>prima facie<\/em> case against Obado, Oyamo, and Obiero for Sharon Otieno\u2019s murder. However, it acquitted them of charges related to the death of Sharon\u2019s unborn baby.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of her murder, Sharon was 28 weeks pregnant. The judge agreed with the defense\u2019s argument based on the <em>born alive<\/em> principle, which states that a child must be born alive for a murder charge to apply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have considered these submissions and agree that the evidence presented by the prosecution does not support the charge of baby Sharon\u2019s murder,\u201d the judge ruled.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 25 \u2013 Former Migori Governor Okoth Obado will present his defense in the murder trial of Rongo University student Sharon Otieno from April 23 to April 25. On Tuesday, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) announced that Obado had informed trial judge Lady Justice Cecilia Githua of his intention to give sworn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}