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FIRST ON FOX: Accused of conspiring with her alleged Bahamian lover to hire a hitman to kill her ex-NFL player husband, Georgia mom and beauty queen Lindsay Shiver should be free from prosecution thanks to “legally fatal” problems with the evidence, one of her attorneys said.
Her U.S. attorney argues Bahamian prosecutors lack the jurisdiction to pursue murder-for-hire charges over alleged conduct that took place while Shiver was in the United States.
“Lindsay Shiver is not guilty of the crimes alleged against her by the Bahamian Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Period,” attorney Craig Shirley told Fox News Digital in a statement.
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Shirley said the indictment alleges Shiver was in the Bahamas on July 16, 2023, when the purported conspiracy occurred, but he maintains her defense has provided prosecutors and the court with evidence from multiple independent sources showing she was in the U.S. that day.
“The DPP must prove it. Meaning that, as a threshold requirement, the DPP is required to prove that Lindsay was in the Bahamas on July 16, 2023,” Shirley said. “It cannot.”
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Shirley argued that the discrepancy is not only a factual dispute but a jurisdictional defect that prevents the Bahamian government from prosecuting Shiver under its own penal code.
“Lindsay cannot be prosecuted under the Bahamian Penal Code for an alleged act committed at a time when the undisputed evidence establishes that she was not in The Bahamas,” he said.
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“This is not a technicality; it is a legally fatal defect in the DPP’s evidence, its charges and its continued prosecution of Lindsay,” he said.
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Shirley said that he was “shocked and disappointed” that Bahamas authorities were continuing to pursue prosecution against Shiver, saying that they have the obligation to drop all charges.
“Lindsay should never have been subjected to a prosecution that the Bahamian government lacked the legal authority to bring,” he said.
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Shirley noted that he issued the statement independently and that neither Shiver nor her Bahamas-based attorney, Terrel Butler, had prior knowledge he was providing it. Butler declined to provide comment.
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The alleged plot was unraveled by Bahamian authorities during an unrelated break-in investigation at a local bar in Abaco, Bahamas.
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While searching a suspect’s phone, police discovered WhatsApp messages containing photos of Robert Shiver alongside text instructions allegedly sent by Lindsay Shiver reading, “Kill him.” Defense attorneys maintained that the messages were taken out of context.
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Shiver, along with her lover, Adrien Bethel, and the alleged hitman, Faron Newbold Jr., were arrested in the Bahamas in July 2023. Shiver, along with Bethel and Newbold Jr., is charged with conspiracy to commit murder under Bahamian law. They pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Bahamas prosecutors and to Robert Shiver’s attorney.
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