World Boss Adidja – Vybz Kartel – Palmer is currently still incarcerated at Horizon Centre, but his legal battle goes on, as the legal appeal against his life-sentence conviction may finally take place later this year.
Tom Tavares-Finson, one of the deejay’s attorneys, confirmed this development.
https://t.co/XGcI1sccC8 ready, freedom is sooner than dem think….worlboss must do road
— kartelcoauthor (@realgazawriter) March 26, 2016
“The transcripts have been reviewed and are just about ready. So it is possible that the bid for an appeal is likely,” Tavares-Finson told the Jamaican press.
“The transcripts have been reviewed and are just about ready. So it is possible that the bid for an appeal is likely,” Tavares-Finson told the Jamaican press.
Vybz Kartel, entertainer Shawn ‘Shawn Storm’ Campbell; Kahira Jones and Andre St John were sentenced on April 3 to life imprisonment for the August 16, 2011 murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams.
Justice Lennox Campbell ordered that Vybz Kartel serve 35 years in prison, with hard labour, before he becomes eligible for parole.Vybz Kartel is being held at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre in Kingston since.
Campbell and Jones are to serve 25 years before becoming eligible for parole, while St John is to become eligible after serving 30 years of his sentence. Following a 65-day trial, they were convicted on March 13, while a fourth accused, Shane Williams, was acquitted by the 11-member jury.
