Vybz Kartels attorney seeks adjournment of conspiracy case Friday, September 19, 2014 DEFENCE attorneys representing con-victed entertainer Vybz Kartel in the attempting to pervert the course of justice case are to make an application in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrates Court on September 22 seeking an adjournment of the trial scheduled for October 27. Vybz Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, and his co-accused Vanessa Gaza Slim Saddler, and Andre Pim-Pim Henry are to be tried on charges of attempting and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. However, the defence lawyers are seeking to have the trial delayed until they get a transcript pertaining to evidence, which was given by the two technical officers from telecoms company Digicel in the entertainers murder trial. On Monday when the case was mentioned before Magistrate Lorna Shelly-Williams, attorney Tom Tavares-Finson, who represents Palmer, complained to the court that prosecution witnesses were modifying the evidence that they gave in the murder trial. One of the principal witnesses offered a different statement than the one he gave in the trial, he said. Additionally, the lawyer told the court that, new statements are being given by old witnesses. Tavares-Finson then asked the magistrate to allow the defence to make an application to postpone the trial, pending the availability of the transcripts, before Presiding Magistrate Simone Wolfe-Reece next Monday. The application was supported by Saddlers lawyer Pierre Rodgers, who said that the transcripts were vital to the defences case in the trial. We would be at a handicap without the transcripts, and that part of the transcripts in particular, he said. As a result, the magistrate scheduled the matter for mention for the attorneys to make their application. In the meantime, the court was informed that Henry, who was previously assigned a legal aid officer, was seeking to get a private lawyer. Vybz Kartel was subsequently remanded, while bail for the other two accused were extended. The trio were charged in 2012 after an alleged scheme to deceive the police in their probe of the murder
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 01:40:40 +0000
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