REPUBLIC OF KENYA IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT SIAYA MISC. CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 9 OF 2020 (CORAM: R. E. ABURILI - J.) JOSEPH ADEKA OTWALA......................APPLICANT VERSUS REPUBLIC...............................................RESPONDENT (Being an Application seeking sentence reduction against conviction and sentence vide PM’s court, Bondo vide Criminal Case No. 951 of 2018) RULING 1. The Application filed on 3/2/2020 seeking that this court commutes 2 year prison term to non-custodial sentence is an abuse of court process. The court has no executive powers to commute sentences. There is no appeal before the court and neither is there any application for revision of sentence to be considered within those parameters of the law. 2. The application is dismissed. 3. File closed. 4. Orders accordingly. Dated, signed and delivered at Siaya, this 3rd day of March, 2020. R.E. ABURILI JUDGE In the presence of: Applicant in person Mr. Okachi, SPPC for State Court Assistants: Ishmael Orwa and Modestar Mutiemani
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