CHANGE OF PLEA
Apia, SAMOA — One of three men facing a charge of plotting to assassinate Samoa's prime minister has withdrawn a bid to change his plea to not guilty.
A hearing for Taualai Leiloa's change of plea was scheduled to be heard today.
But his lawyer has told the court that village pressure on the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who was released from jail last week — by order of the court — is back to prison on the allegation that he violated conditions of his probation, after testing positive for drugs.
The government alleges that Afasene Hunkin was ordered by Probation to undergo a drug...

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