By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
FORMER Georgia beauty queen Lindsay Shiver returned to court yesterday as prosecutors sought to have her bail revoked over alleged failures to comply with electronic monitoring conditions while awaiting trial on a charge that she conspired with two Abaco men to kill her husband.
The bail revocation hearing before Senior Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson focused on problems with Shiver’s monitoring equipment and whether she had failed to comply with requirements imposed after she was allowed to return to the United States on bail.
A representative of monitoring company Migrafil testified that several devices used to monitor Shiver had malfunctioned.
Her attorney, Terrel Butler, sought to establish that such malfunctions were common and that problems with the equipment did not necessarily mean Shiver had deliberately failed to comply.
Ms Butler also suggested that her client was unable to report to the monitoring company in May because she was ill.
The witness disagreed with the suggestion that the problems began then, saying issues with Shiver’s monitoring dated back to December.
The representative said Shiver told the company in December that she was unable to attend a device servicing appointment.
By May, according to the witness, Migrafil had made three attempts to have the device serviced.
The company had offered to replace the device in December, the witness said, and the designated servicing location was in Miami, Florida.
The defence said Shiver had another court matter in the United States at the time that prevented her from travelling a long distance.
The monitoring representative could not say whether Shiver had been attempting to evade monitoring.
The court heard that her device was eventually replaced in a post office parking lot in the United States, with the work carried out inside a vehicle.
The witness agreed that the replacement occurred in a vehicle but could not say whether the mobile service provider that handled the change could have arranged a location closer to Ms Shiver.
The defence said she had to drive five hours or more to the appointment while suffering from what it described as a summer flu.
Ms Shiver, Terrance Bethel and Faron Newbold Jr, 29, are charged with conspiracy to commit murder over an alleged plot to kill her husband, Robert Shiver, on July 16, 2023.
Authorities allegedly uncovered the plot after seizing a phone during an investigation into an unrelated crime in Guana Cay.
Ms Shiver was granted bail last year and permitted to return to the United States under strict monitoring conditions.
She previously lost her bail briefly in 2024 after prosecutors alleged that she had left Alabama on several occasions in breach of a court order.
Karine MacVean appeared for the prosecution.
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