Defence attorney Peter Champagnie, King's Counsel, says Parliament is to blame for the dilemma now playing out in the courts with defendants charged under the new Firearms Act opting to go to tr.
KINGSTON, Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness has given instructions for the new Firearms Act to be amended.
The directive comes after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewelyn, on M.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) says it will be appealing the life sentence imposed on a St Catherine man who was caught with an illegal firearm. The ODPP says the sentence, w.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), in deeming the sentences of life imprisonment for illegal possession of a prohibited weapon and unauthorised possession of ammunition pass.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has disclosed that it will be going to the Court of Appeal to have the life sentence imposed on a St Catherine man who was caught with an illegal gun set aside, as it exceeds.