KUWAIT CITY, July 5: The Court of Appeals Monday set July 15, 2010 to look into an appeal filed by a 37-year-old unemployed Kuwaiti man, identified only as Fahad.
On April 21, 2010, the Criminal Court found Fahad guilty of premeditatedly murdering his Kuwaiti neighbor because he suspected the man of having an illegal relationship with his wife and was sentenced to death.
Case papers indicate on April 28, 2009, according to the testimony of the victim’s sister she was in the sitting room with her mother in her brother’s house in Rumaithiya. She added her brother; the victim, came down from the upper floor, greeted them and went out of the house.
In a few moments, he returned holding his stomach in his hands blood dripping through his fingers. He said Fahad had stabbed him.
The sister took her brother to the Rumaithiya clinic and called her other brother and told him what had happened. The man later succumbed to his injuries.
Fahad was arrested and during interrogation he admitted to committing the crime and said he suspected the victim of having an illegal relationship with his wife.
The session was presided over by Judge Nasr Salem Al-Haid.
Verdict July 18
 The Criminal Court Monday set July 18, 2010 to issue a verdict in the case of a Kuwaiti man who has been charged with cultivating marijuana in the garden of his home.
During a previous session, the Public Prosecution had released two of his sons on a KD 200 bail each after they told the Prosecution they knew nothing about the marijuana.
The sons said they saw their father planting a lot of saplings in the garden but they did not know what they were. They also told the judge if their father knew that the sapling he was planting was a drug, he would never cultivate it.
The defense attorney Abdul Mohsen Al-Qattan also told the Public Prosecutor his client did not known that what he was cultivating was a drug.
The session was presided over by Judge Mohamed Al-Khalaf.