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A Nigerian man was sentenced to death by the High Court in KualaLumpur, Malaysia, on Friday, November 30, after he was found guilty of trafficking more than 700g of drugs into the country in May 2017. Judge Datuk Azman Abdullah sent Joseph Nnamdi, 46, to the gallows after finding that the defence had failed to raise reasonable doubt against the prosecution’s case. “After examining arguments by both the defence and the prosecution, the court found that the defence failed to raise reasonable doubt and the accused is found guilty and sentenced to death,” he said. Nnamdi, a part-time delivery man, was charged with trafficking 727.1g of methamphetamine at a lane at Jalan Segambut, Kg Segambut Luar at 2.30pm on May 3, 2017. He was charged under Section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and punishable under Section 39B(2) of the same law, which provides the mandatory death sentence upon conviction. The prosecution was conducted by deputy public prosecutor Nadiah Isa, while Nnamdi...

Video recording of a Baltimore police officer, captured by the officer's body cam without his knowledge, planting evidence at the scene of a drug arrest, allegedly so he can arrest a suspect. In the video, the officer can be seen planting the drugs in a cup then walking out to of the area go put on his body camera before returning to the same spot to search for the drugs. "I'm going to check here. Hold on," he said for the benefit of the body cam as though he were just going to that spot for the first time. The officer pretended to search around for some time before he brought out the container where he had earlier hidden the drugs and acted like he just found it. Maryland's Office of the Public Defender released the incriminating video. Police cameras can include a feature that saves 30 seconds of video before activation so that's probably how the video was captured before his body cam was turned on. Kevin Davis, Baltimore Police Commisioner said they ar...