Beauty queen Lindsay Shiver’s attorney rips Bahamas dispute he says could sink alleged husband murder plot

FIRST ON FOX: Accused of conspiring with her alleged Bahamian person to prosecute a hitman to termination her ex-NFL subordinate husband, Georgia ma and quality queen Lindsay Shiver should beryllium escaped from prosecution acknowledgment to "legally fatal" problems with the evidence, 1 of her attorneys said.

Her U.S. lawyer argues Bahamian prosecutors deficiency the jurisdiction to prosecute murder-for-hire charges implicit alleged behaviour that took spot portion Shiver was successful the United States.

"Lindsay Shiver is not blameworthy of the crimes alleged against her by the Bahamian Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Period," lawyer Craig Shirley told Fox News Digital successful a statement.

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Lindsay Shriver and her lover, Adrien Bethel, acold left, are accused of plotting to termination her hubby and the begetter of their 3 boys, Robert Shiver. (Daniel William McKnight/ Instagram)

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Shirley said the indictment alleges Shiver was successful the Bahamas connected July 16, 2023, erstwhile the purported conspiracy occurred, but helium maintains her defence has provided prosecutors and the tribunal with grounds from aggregate autarkic sources showing she was successful the U.S. that day.

"The DPP indispensable beryllium it. Meaning that, arsenic a threshold requirement, the DPP is required to beryllium that Lindsay was successful the Bahamas connected July 16, 2023," Shirley said. "It cannot."

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Lindsay Shiver leaves ultimate tribunal successful the Bahamas, Aug. 9, 2023. Shiver, 36, is accused of plotting to termination her husband, Robert Shiver, who was a prima shot subordinate astatine Auburn University. (Daniel William McKnight)

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Shirley argued that the discrepancy is not lone a factual quality but a jurisdictional defect that prevents the Bahamian authorities from prosecuting Shiver nether its ain penal code.

"Lindsay cannot beryllium prosecuted nether the Bahamian Penal Code for an alleged enactment committed astatine a clip erstwhile the undisputed grounds establishes that she was not successful The Bahamas," helium said.

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"This is not a technicality; it is simply a legally fatal defect successful the DPP’s evidence, its charges and its continued prosecution of Lindsay," helium said.

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Shirley said that helium was "shocked and disappointed" that Bahamas authorities were continuing to prosecute prosecution against Shiver, saying that they person the work to driblet each charges.

"Lindsay should ne'er person been subjected to a prosecution that the Bahamian authorities lacked the ineligible authorization to bring," helium said.

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Shirley noted that helium issued the connection independently and that neither Shiver nor her Bahamas-based attorney, Terrel Butler, had anterior cognition helium was providing it. Butler declined to supply comment.

Lindsay Shiver, acold right, wearing a chapeau that reads "Bad Influence" is accused of plotting to termination her husband, Robert Shiver. (Instagram)

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The alleged crippled was unraveled by Bahamian authorities during an unrelated break-in probe astatine a section barroom successful Abaco, Bahamas.

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While searching a suspect’s phone, constabulary discovered WhatsApp messages containing photos of Robert Shiver alongside substance instructions allegedly sent by Lindsay Shiver reading, "Kill him." Defense attorneys maintained that the messages were taken retired of context.

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Shiver, on with her lover, Adrien Bethel, and the alleged hitman, Faron Newbold Jr., were arrested successful the Bahamas successful July 2023. Shiver, on with Bethel and Newbold Jr., is charged with conspiracy to perpetrate execution nether Bahamian law. They pleaded not blameworthy to each charges.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Bahamas prosecutors and to Robert Shiver's attorney.