TAMPA, Florida (Jamaica Observer) — Jamaican Reggae singer Buju Banton will have to wait until Monday to know his fate as the 13-member panel of jurors have yet to come to a decision.
The jurors are expected to resume their deliberations at 8:45 am on Monday.
Banton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, has been in jail for nine months and 14 days after being hauled out of his Tamarac home in South Florida on December 10 last year, two days after his co-defendants Ian Thomas and James Mack were held during a drug bust at a police controlled warehouse in Saratoga, Tampa.
Both signed plea deals and agreed to testify against Myrie in exchange for lesser sentences. However, none of the two took the stand as Mack pleaded the fifth amendment and neither the prosecution or the defence found Thomas’ testimony to be of any assistance to their case.
