5.3 The Committee has noted the State party's submission of 4 April 1990,
made after the decision on admissibility, in which it reaffirms its position
that the communication remains inadmissible on the ground of non-exhaustion of
domestic remedies. The Committee takes the opportunity to expand on its
admissibility findings, in the light of the State party's further
observations.
5.4 The Committee observes that domestic remedies within the meaning of the
Optional Protocol must be both available and effective. It recalls that by
submission of 10 October 1991 concerning a different case, the State party
indicated that legal aid is not provided in respect of constitutional
motions, d/ It is further uncontested that no lawyer in Jamaica is willing to
represent the author for this purpose on a pro bono basis. In this context,
the Committee observes that it is not the author's indigence that absolves him
from pursuing constitutional remedies, but the State party's inability or
unwillingness to provide legal aid for that purpose.
5.5 The State party has claimed, again in respect of different cases
involving capital punishment, that it has no obligation under the Covenant to
make legal aid available in respect of constitutional motions, as such motions
do not involve the determination of a criminal charge, as required by
article 14, paragraph 3 (d), of the Covenant. This issue before the Committee
has not, however, been raised in the context of article 14, paragraph 3 (d),
but in the context of whether domestic remedies have been exhausted.
5.6 For the above reasons, the Committee maintains that a constitutional
motion does not constitute a remedy that is both available and effective
within the meaning of article 5, paragraph 2 (b), of the Optional Protocol.
Accordingly, there is no reason to reverse its decision on admissibility of
30 March 1989.
5.7 With regard to the allegations under articles 7 and 10, paragraph 1, of
the Covenant, concerning the conditions of the author's detention on death
row, the Committee notes that the substantiation thereof was not submitted by
counsel until after the adoption of the Committee's decision on
admissibility. The Committee further observes that the issues concerning
Mr. Campbell's detention on death row and the question of whether prolonged
detention on death row constitutes inhuman and degrading treatment were not
placed before the Jaiflaican courts, nor apparently brought to the.attention of
any other competent Jamaican authority. As domestic remedies in this respect
have manifestly not been exhausted, the Committee is precluded from
considering these allegations on their merits.
6.1 As to the substance of Mr. Campbell's admissible allegations, the
Committee regrets that several requests for clarifications notwithstanding,
the State party has confined itself to the observation that the author seeks
to raise issues of facts and evidence that the Committee is not competent to
evaluate. The Committee cannot but interpret this as the State party's
refusal to cooperate under article 4, paragraph 2, of the Optional Protocol.
This provision enjoins a State party to investigate in good faith all the
allegations of violations of the Covenant made against it and to make
available to the Committee all the information at its disposal. The summary
dismissal of the author's allegations, as in the instant case, does not fulfil
the requirements of article 4, paragraph 2. In the circumstances, due weight
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