Jamaica’s Director of Public Prosecutions, Paula Llewellyn, has introduced that her workplace intends to hunt a retrial for Vybz Kartel and his three co-accused.
Final Thursday, the imprisoned dancehall artist and his three co-accused: Shawn Campbell, Kahira Jones, and Andre St John, had their 2014 life sentences quashed by the United Kingdom-based Privy Council on the idea of jury tampering.
The 4 males have been sentenced to life in jail for the 2011 homicide of Clive “Lizard” Williams.
In its judgment, the Privy Council ordered that the case be returned to Jamaica’s Enchantment Court docket to resolve whether or not to order a retrial for Vybz Kartel and the three males or set them free.
On a Jamaica radio program this morning, the DPP mentioned that the subsequent plan of action can be to pursue a retrial.
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“I consider we might be obliged to [pursue a retrial] given the power of the case for the prosecution that was put up, and given the authority and the case legislation,” Llewellyn mentioned.
“As I mirror going ahead to my retirement subsequent yr, I’ve been too profitable in looking for to sensitize the general public and the media, to attempt to clarify a variety of advanced points. Fairly often when you might have data of the state of the legislation, the prosecutors are obliged to go on a selected path,” she added.
Final week, following the judgment, Vybz Kartel mentioned he was assured that he can be dwelling along with his household quickly, insisting that there was no level in a retrial.
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“I’m assured that the Court docket of Enchantment in Jamaica will do the appropriate factor within the title of fairness, equity and justice and free us. Some folks have expressed their concern to me {that a} retrial could also be ordered however to them I say (albeit with my restricted data of the legislation) ‘What’s there to retry’?” he mentioned in his first official assertion.
Llewellyn mentioned components influencing a retrial embody the seriousness of the crime and public curiosity.
“The general public must be conscious that the difficulty of retrial, so far as prosecutors are involved, has nothing to do with feelings. It has nothing to do with who the accused is. It has to do with the seriousness of the offense, the general public curiosity, [or] how intensive it could be to mount the retrial. It doesn’t even need to do with what the probably verdict could also be,” she mentioned.
Vybz Kartel’s lawyer to hunt bail
As for Vybz Kartel’s lawyer Isat Buchanan, his subsequent order of enterprise, he mentioned, can be to hunt bail for his shopper.
Buchanan, nevertheless, admitted that he couldn’t predict when Kartel can be launched on bail. He was denied bail the primary time round after being charged with the homicide of Williams.
“We await the orders from the court docket to be despatched to the Court docket of Enchantment and we are going to take it from there. I do know that the Privy Council acts expeditiously given the truth that it was an expedited listening to so we are going to get phrase from the court docket. That’s all I can say proper now,” Buchanan mentioned.
