Sentencing judge Justice Bertram Morrison “erred” in his decision to hand down 12-year sentences to a man convicted for two 2017 Westmoreland murders, the Court of Appeal said Friday in overturning th.
We well understand the hurt and the feeling among Ms Shantell White’s family that the reduced prison sentence handed down to the man who killed her did not match the crime.
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Peter Champagnie
Attorney-at-law Peter Champagnie, who is also defence attorney for Mavado’s son, Dantay Brooks, and who represented Alkaline and Dexta Daps in the past, took a Jamaican cartoonist to task on Saturday morning, for an illustration which depicted defence attorneys rejoicing over the fact that no amendment would be made to Jamaica’s Criminal Justice Act.
Champagnie, a Queen’s Counsel, expressed his displeasure after the Jamaica Observer posted a cartoon on its Instagram page which showed an apparently money-grubbing defence attorney sprawled on a wad of cash on one side of the scale of justice whilst ripping a document in two, while on the other end of the scale were bodies of murder victims piled on top of each other.
One of the lawyers for dancehall artiste Laden said that the
Time To Shine deejay, who was on Monday sentenced to four years imprisonment for illegal possession of firearm, could be on the streets after about a year.
Attorney-at-law Thomas Levene told
THE STAR that In practical terms, he may apply for parole after one year .
Laden benefited from sentencing discount under the Criminal Justice (Administration) (Amendment) Act because he pleaded guilty and did not waste the court s time.
When Laden appeared in the St Elizabeth Circuit Court on Tuesday for sentencing hearing, fellow Rising Stars alum, singer Christopher Martin, and Cetany Holness, councillor for the Junction division in the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation, served as character witnesses. The sentencing was delayed until yesterday.