{"id":115035,"date":"2022-06-16T16:16:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=115035"},"modified":"2022-07-28T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T23:30:23","slug":"nov-03-1980-1626-georgetown-state-5310","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=115035","title":{"rendered":"Nov 03, 1980 \u2022 1921 \u2022 Georgetown-State \u2022 5310"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[<b>Editor\u2019s note<\/b>: This document was released both as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=115035\"> State Department cable<\/a><\/u> as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=105474\">Serial 2551<\/a><\/u> of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release.<\/p>\n<p>[The State Department release withheld the second half of this cable under the national security exemption to the Freedom of Information Act, but it was included in the RYMUR release. The originally-deleted portions are denoted below in red type.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>R 031921Z NOV 80<br \/>\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN<br \/>\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4009<br \/>\nFBI WASHDC PRIORITY<br \/>\nDEPT OF JUSTICE WASHDC PRIORITY<br \/>\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE GEORGETOWN 5310<br \/>\nE.O. 12065: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: CARR, GY (LAYTON, LAURENCE)<br \/>\nSUBJECT: COURT HEARINGS CONTINUE ON LAYTON&#8217;S LEGAL FEES<br \/>\nREF: GEORGETOWN 5071<\/p>\n<p>1. The court hearing scheduled for November 1 was postponed until November 3. After November 3 hearing Layton agreed that he owed his lawyer, Jai Narine Singh, the $95,000 (Guyanese) which Singh had claimed. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The judge in the case subsequently informed Emboff [Embassy officer] that on November 6 she would hand down a judgment in favor of Singh and would lift present injunction against Layton\u2019s leaving the country. There would then be further arguments as to whether a new order should be issued restraining Layton from leaving Guyana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">2. The Director of Public Prosecutions reiterated to Emboff November 3 that he does \u201cnot plan to turn Layton loose on the street.\u201d He said he would act only in consultation with the Embassy. The DPP was aware of Layton\u2019s November 3 consent to judgment on the legal fees and said he would await the November 6 hearing before considering what to do next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Roberts [George B. Roberts, Jr., American ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED OFFICIAL USE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor\u2019s note: This document was released both as a State Department cable as part of its 1981 FOIA release, and as Serial 2551 of the FBI\u2019s RYMUR release. [The State Department release withheld the second half of this cable under the national security exemption to the Freedom of Information Act, but it was included in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":114906,"menu_order":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-115035","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117352,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115035\/revisions\/117352"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}