In 2014, Vybz Kartel was once sentenced to lifestyles in jail after being convicted of the 2011 homicide of Clive “Lizard” Williams. The Jamaican dancehall superstar has now received an attraction of his conviction because of juror misconduct within the unique trial, Reuters studies. A Jamaican appeals court docket will now make a decision whether or not the musician and his co-defendants will once more stand trial.
The trial of Vybz Kartel and his co-defendants lasted 64 days and was once one of the most longest in Jamaican historical past. All through the trial, one juror allegedly attempted to bribe different jurors to go back not-guilty verdicts, however the alleged briber was once now not disregarded from the case.
In overturning the convictions, the Privy Council dominated that permitting the questionable juror to stick at the jury was once “deadly to the protection of the convictions which adopted” and “an infringement of the [defendants’] elementary proper to an excellent listening to,” consistent with BBC Information.
Ahead of being charged with homicide, Vybz Kartel had labored with main artists together with Rihanna, Pharrell Williams, and Jay-Z. Regardless of his incarceration, he has launched a lot of new albums.
