By Lagi Keresoma<\/p>\n
APIA, SAMOA \u2013 18 JULY 2022: <\/strong>The Supreme Court has denied the application by two men accused of a conspiracy to assassinate for a stay of proceedings against them.<\/p>\n His Honour Chief Justice Satiu Simativa Perese delivered his decision against Malele Paulo aka King Faipopo and Lema\u2019i Sione\u2019s application last Friday.<\/p>\n He also made an order for most part of the decision to be suppressed as the main trial of the charges against the applicants is yet to be heard.<\/p>\n \u201cThe application for stay has been dismissed and the Court has suppressed its reasons pending further order of the Court in the interests of the Applicants rights to a fair trial,\u201d said His Honour Satiu.<\/p>\n The Applicants are jointly charged with a third party for conspiracy to assassinate former Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi.<\/p>\n The charges were brought in 2018 and Lema’i and Malele have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.<\/p>\n The third defendant, Talalelei Pauga, lives in Australia and had been fighting in court the extradition order for him to stand trial with Lema’i and Malele in Samoa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Lagi Keresoma APIA, SAMOA \u2013 18 JULY 2022: The Supreme Court has denied the application by two men accused of a conspiracy to assassinate for a stay of proceedings against them. His Honour Chief Justice Satiu Simativa Perese delivered his decision against Malele Paulo aka King Faipopo and Lema\u2019i Sione\u2019s application last Friday. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1283,59,1285,1282,1284],"class_list":["post-12804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conspiracy-to-assassinate","tag-featured","tag-former-pm-tuilaepa","tag-king-faipopo","tag-lemai-sione"],"yoast_head":"\n