Lennox Campbell “wow”

Jamaican Judge Lennox Campbell sen­tenced Adijia (Vybz Kartel Palmer to Life in prison,without the pos­si­bil­i­ty of parole until he has served 35 years.All of this is pred­i­cat­ed on whether Kartel los­es his appeal. This web­site and this blog­ger in par­tic­u­lar, has been par­tic­u­lar­ly angry at Jamaican Judges for their lib­er­al stance par­tic­u­lar­ly in sen­tenc­ing and the Granting of Bail. I believe that Bail should not be used as pun­ish­ment. However ‚there should be seri­ous eval­u­a­tion done on a case by case basis regard­ing the grant­i­ng of Bail,when the charges are mur­der and oth­er seri­ous offences. Courts sim­ply can­not be in the busi­ness of return­ing homi­ci­dal mur­der­ers to the streets to kill time and again before they face tri­al on the first charge. As such I wrote a series of Articles which I des­ig­nat­ed the mad Liberal Agenda of Jamaica’s Judges> The Observer of April 4^th, 2014 sto­ry titled [Why Kartel got life] allud­ed to the fact that Lennox Campbell was in fact a Liberal Judge.

Michael Lorne, who rep­re­sents Campbell, asked for a 15-year prison term and said that the judge could con­sid­er going low­er, not­ing the judge’s his­to­ry of impos­ing mod­est sen­tences. The lawyers said that the men were not beyond reha­bil­i­ta­tion and that they could con­tribute to soci­ety if released early.

We feel vin­di­cat­ed , that we had not spent all that time trum­pet­ing the prob­lems in the sys­tem because we are mean or unfair. This state­ment came from a well-known Criminal Defense Lawyer. I com­mend Lennox Campbell on his rea­soned assess­ment of the evi­dence pre­sent­ed in his court. We are thrilled that he now sees fit to seri­ous­ly look at mur­der accused the way they ought to be looked at. Despite what appears to be rebirth of Lennox Campbell, this pub­li­ca­tion and this hum­ble Blogger will con­tin­ue to look at the actions of the courts and bring them to the atten­tion of the world.

In hand­ing down the sen­tences, Justice Campbell out­lined that he took into con­sid­er­a­tion the fact that the mur­der of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams on August 16, 2011 was planned and pre­med­i­tat­ed; that Williams’ body had been con­cealed; the men­tal stress Williams had been put through before his mur­der; and the attempt to destroy evi­dence.  http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​W​h​y​-​K​a​r​t​e​l​-​g​o​t​-​l​i​f​e​_​1​6​4​0​9​626

That is all we ever ask from Judges , that they look at the evi­dence and not be swayed by opin­ions, and emo­tions. We hope that oth­er Judges will fol­low suit, even as we hope that Lennox Campbell will con­tin­ue to employ com­mon sense and fideli­ty to the laws.

In oth­er matters .

In ask­ing for lenience for the men, Rogers quot­ed Jesus Christ from the Bible: “What you do to the least among them you do to me. Attorney Pierre Rogers, appeared for St John . Well Just when I thought I had heard it all, go figure.