Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Allegedly never told former governor he would assault him
By Andrew O. De Guzman
SAIPAN, CNMI (Marianas Variety, June 4, 2013) – Doctor John B. Joyner, who served as senior policy adviser to then-Gov. Benigno R. Fitial, yesterday testified that defendant Brian Kendall, 48, didn’t say that the then-chief executive would be bashed with a metal pipe or an aluminum bat.
Kendall, who has been diagnosed with bipolar and post-traumatic stress disorders, is being tried on the charge of making a terroristic threat.
According to Joyner. Kendall, after seeing Fitial’s photo in Joyner’s office, said the then-governor should not resign but die.
Joyner said Kendall suggested that someone could be present at one of the doors in the administration building and may do harm to the governor.
At the time, Joyner said...