Latest Developments In Vybz Kartel’s Court Case January 2014

Let’s see which are some of the major developments with the trial that already reached day 30th of debate in the courts, Adidja Palmer spent another birthday behind bars in a jail cell in Kinsgton.

During the past week, Joseph Simmonds, who is Digicel’s Group Business Risk Director, took the witness stand and told the court that he could not determine if any of the seized cellphones belong to Vybz Kartel or his co-accused. Simmonds also told the court that he gave police officers two CDs containing data from Digicel regarding 40 cellphone numbers. He also handed over to officers a written statement.

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Only one of the two CDs was available to be tendered into evidence yesterday.

Simmonds told the court, when pressed by Vybz Kartel defense attorney, that lead prosecutor Jeremy Taylor had told him that one of the disc was lost. 

Tom Tavares-Finson will continue his cross-examination of Joseph Simmonds.

Vybz Kartel, legal name Adidja Palmer, and his co-accused Shawn “Storm” Campbell, Kahira Jones, André St John, and Shane Williams are all on trial for the alleged murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams. Authorities theorized that Williams was beaten to death on August 16, 2011 at a house on Swallowfield Rd in Havendale.

Police say he was killed over a missing firearm. After weeks of behind closed door testimony from former head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Cybercrime Unit, Patrick Linton, Justice Lennox Campbell has decided to admit video footage, audio recordings, and text messages into evidence.

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Justice Lennox Campbell has ruled that video and other evidence may be admitted as evidence in the Vybz Kartel’s murder trial. Lawyers this afternoon completed their submissions in relation to the hearing and Justice Campbell then made the ruling. 

It is understood that this will entail all the material which the prosecution had sought to have tendered into evidence. For several weeks the court had been hearing evidence from witnesses including cyber crimes expert Detective Sergeant Patrick Linton.  Detective Sergeant Linton was the head of the Police Forensic and Cybercrimes Unit at the Organised Crime Investigation Division when the police carried out its investigation into the murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams. 

The police had reported that they have video and audio recordings linking Vybz Kartel and his co-defendants to the killing. 

Kartel is jointly charged with fellow entertainer Shawn Campbell also known as Shawn Storm, Kahira Jones, Shane Williams and Andre St John for the August 16, 2011 murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams.  This ruling means the jury will now be allowed to view the video footage, BBM messages, audio recordings, and text messages police officers recovered from the devices.

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