the draft constitution of the commonwealth of grenada

(a) presumed to be innocent until he or she is
proved to be or has pleaded guilty;
(b) informed, as soon as is reasonably
practicable in a language that he or she
understands and in detail, of the nature of the
offence charged;
(c) allowed the assistance of Counsel of his or
her choice and adequate time for the
preparation of his or her defence;
(d) provided with Counsel if, to the satisfaction
of the court, he or she is unable to retain
private counsel;
(e) confronted with the witnesses for the
prosecution;
(f) afforded compulsory process for obtaining
witnesses for his or her defence; and shall
not be compelled to be a witness for or
(g)
against the defence; and
permitted to have without payment the
assistance of an interpreter if he or she
cannot understand the language used at the
trial of the charge.
(3) Except with his or her consent, a person’s trial shall
not take place in his or her absence unless he or she so conducts
himself or herself in such a manner as to render proceedings in his
or her presence impracticable and the court has ordered the trial to
proceed in his or her absence.
(4) When a person is tried for a criminal offence, the
accused person or a person authorised by him or her shall, if the
accused person so requires and subject to payment of such
reasonable fee as may be prescribed by law, be given within a
reasonable time after judgment for his or her use a copy of any
record of the proceedings made by or on behalf of the court.
(5) A person shall not be held to be guilty of a criminal
offence on account of any act or omission that did not, at the time
the act or omission took place, constitute such an offence; and a
penalty shall not be imposed for any criminal offence that is more
severe in degree or nature than the most severe penalty that might
have been imposed for that offence at the time when the offence
was committed.
(6) A person who shows that he or she has been tried by
a competent court for a criminal offence and was either convicted
or acquitted shall not again be tried for that offence or for any other
criminal offence of which he or she could have been convicted at
the trial for that offence, except upon the order of a superior court
in the course of appeal proceedings relating to the conviction or
acquittal.
(7) A person shall not be tried for a criminal offence if
he or she shows that he or she has been granted a pardon for the
offence with which he or she has been charged.
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