Conviction and Sentence In Absenstia; Effective Date of Sentence, Settling the Uncertainty; The Case of Sedinam Tamakloe-Attionu, Former MASLOC CEO

Upon pronouncement of the sentence after trial, legal scholars and academics have sought to discuss ‘when her sentence takes effect’ because by a provision in the Criminal Procedure legislation, a sentence takes effect from, and it includes the day it was pronounced. Criminal law experts like the learned Daniel Korang have suggested a legislative lacuna and posited that her sentence starts from when same was passed and so if she is able to abscond for ten years and her sentence is over...