Monrovia, Jan. 16 -- Civil Law Court "A" at the Temple of Justice on Tuesday, January 15 declared as "insufficient" a bond filed for the prosecution of Hot Pepper Editor Philipbert Browne.

Brown is facing a lawsuit of US$10M damages.

The court's decision grew out of an exception raised by lawyer representing the legal interest of the Editor of the Hot Pepper Newspaper that the US$1.5M attachment bond filed by former Bong County Representative Tokpah Mulbah legal counsels to serve as the basis for the prosecution of the newspaper editor was insufficient.

"Counsel for the Defendant called the attention of the court to the main issue that was raised in their excerption which was that the amount spell out in the bond filed by the plaintiff...