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JACKSON, Miss. -- Charges have been dropped against three Jackson men accused in the 1998 slayings of four people in an apartment.

Sharrod Ray Moore, his brother, Paul Moore, and Eugene Marshall were charged each with four counts of murder.

They were accused of killing Marcus "Sweet Pea" Walker, Jumaane Darnell Hill, Marcus McDaniel and Howard Travis on Jan. 23, 1998.

Hinds County District Attorney Faye Peterson filed a motion Tuesday to remand the case to file. Circuit Judge Winston Kidd signed the order this week.

Peterson said prosecutors don't have sufficient evidence to proceed because they cannot locate a witness and because they have lost evidence necessary to determine the identity of the shooter.

Remanding a case to file means it won't be prosecuted, but could be brought up if new evidence is found to warrant reopening it.

A Dec. 3 trial date had been set in the case The Sierra Leonean businessman accused of burglary says the man who he hired to defend his legal interest wants to possess his ship by refusing to turn over the ship documents in his possession.

Addressing a news conference over the weekend, Amadu T. Bondu, Chief Executive Officer of Door-to-Door Shipping Enterprise, said Cllr. Marcus R. Jones is holding onto his documents simply because he turned down a request from the lawyer that he (Bondu) appoints him Chairman of his company's board.

The businessman indicated that he also requested his ship documents from Cllr. Jones so that he could regularize the status of the vessel in line with Maritime Guidelines, but he again refused.

Pressing to get his documents, Mr. Bondu said he told Cllr. Jones that he wanted the document to get an insurance bond for the ship but, according to him, Cllr. Jones said insurance bond was no longer in existence. The businessman added that this information was rebuffed by his new lawyer.

On claims of burglary made by Cllr. Jones, the Sierra Leonean businessman said the allegations were baseless, untrue and unfounded.

"I want to state here that I have no idea whatsoever of any burglary and theft at Cllr. Jones' office, and why would I want to steal my ship document which is my own property which I give to Cllr. Jones for safe keeping?" Mr. Bondu asked.

The Sierra Leonean businessman said he did not owe Cllr. Jones a cent for legal service since he (Bondu) already paid him US$20,000 and has receipts to confirm payment of the amount.

"He wants to incriminate me and why should a Counselor lie to his client; he's holding to my documents, he wants to steal my ship," the Sierra Leonean emphasized.

He narrated that on October 6, while in his office, Cllr. Jones sent for him that he had to sign a lease document which he had prepared for his signature.

While he and his three children were waiting in Cllr. Jones' office, the businessman said his driver informed him that there was information that he would be detained because of a matter in Freetown, Sierra Leone, involving his bank.

He said he decided to visit the Embassy of Sierra Leone to see the Ambassador, but learnt that he was out.

On his way back to Cllr. Jones' office, his children called him to tell him that they had been arrested and taken to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).

Bondu alleged that he was man-handled by NBI officers while on his way to see his children. He also claimed that he and his kids spent the entire Saturday in custody at the NBI, and were released only on the intervention of his new lawyer.

Due to the magnitude of the matter, the Sierra Leonean investor is therefore calling on President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the Ministry of Justice, the Liberia National Bar Association of Liberia (LNBA) and the Liberia National Police to investigate the burglary allegation.

Last week, it was reported that Cllr. Jones had accused his client of burglary. The client, a Sierra Leonean businessman, Amadu Tambadu Bundu, was picked up by officers of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for allegedly breaking into the Jones and Associates Law Firm on Michelin Street.

His arrest was based on a tip-off by Cllr. Marcus Jones, senior partner of the Jones and Associates Law firm.

The Door to Door Service is a Sierra Leonean shipping company that is involved in the transportation of goods along the Liberian coast.

Cllr. Jones told reporters that the original copy of the bill of sale of Tambadu Bundu's vessel was in his custody as surety prior to the commission of the crime on October 5.

He said he suspected Tambadu Bundu of executing the crime after noticing that the vessel's bill of sale was stolen during the commission of the crime.

He said four days before the burglary, Tambadu Bundu and his two daughters pleaded with him to turn over the bill of sale to them, but he refused to surrender it due to conflicting statements from the girls and their father.

Cllr. Jones said one of the girls told him that they needed the bill of sale to present it to the British Embassy to enable her get a visa to study in London while her father said he needed it to secure a loan from Ecobank.

"Based on these conflicting accounts and the risk involved, I advised them that Mr. Tambadu Bundu could secure a visa for his daughter without the original copy of the vessel's bill of sale and that any attempt to use the vessel as collateral to secure additional loan in Liberia would result into the grounding and sale of his vessel.

Cllr. Jones indicated that surprisingly, four days following the meeting with the Tambadu Bundu family, the law firm was broken into with the original copy of Tambadu Bundu's vessel bill of sale stolen.

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Cllr. Jones: "Apart from the bill of sale, some cash including US$3,500 and a US$1,700 that was provided by Tambadu Bundu to settle a case he had at the Criminal Court 'C' were all taken away."

He also added that another US$600 given by Rev. Christian Daugadu to file a suit on his behalf was also stolen from his office during the commission of the crime.

Cllr. Jones argued that he could not deposit the money at the bank because "the ethics forbid amalgamation of client's cash with that of yours."