[2][3] Thus vindicated, Williams took up a new post as Officer Commanding the Cayo District Police, but the following month announced that he would be taking study leave in order to attend law school.
In media comments in that month, he denied all the allegations against him and described them as part of a campaign of political victimisation due to the perception that he was a People's United Party supporter.
[9][11] This perception had been brewing for several months, partly due to a pre-election incident in which he filed suit against UDP politician Mark King for use of indecent language during a confrontation over a campaign sign.
[13] In early May 2008, Solicitor-General Tanya Herwanger issued a legal opinion stating that the government's case against Williams was "fatally flawed" and that it may have been politically motivated through the involvement of Commissioner of Police Carlos Perdomo and Minister of Public Service John Saldivar.
[17] Williams appealed his reduction in rank to the Belize Advisory Council; attorneys Ellis Arnold and former SG Edwin Flowers appeared on his behalf.
However, just one month later, Williams announced that he and fellow senior officer Bart Jones were putting down their badges temporarily to study for LL.B.s at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill, Barbados and then Legal Education Certificates at the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica.
[22] During his summer vacation after successfully completing the first year of his LL.B., he went to the Prosecution Branch in Belize City to offer assistance and learn first-hand about prosecutorial work.