Jamaican Gov’t To Pay Costs In Vybz Kartel’s Privy Council Appeal
Dancehall artists Vybz Kartel and Shawn Storm and two other men won a major victory last month when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overturned their murder convictions.
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Dancehall artists Vybz Kartel and Shawn Storm and two other men won a major victory last month when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overturned their murder convictions.
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn says her office will ask the Court of Appeal to order a retrial for Vybz Kartel and his three co-accused Shawn “Shawn Storm” Campbell, Kahira Jones, and Andre “Mad Suss” St.
Lawyers for Dancehall artists Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer, Shawn ‘Storm’ Campbell, and two other men can now request bail pending the Jamaica Court of Appeal’s decision on a possible retrial.
Dancehall artists Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer, Shawn ‘Storm’ Campbell, and two other men had their convictions overturned by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) in London due to juror misconduct during their trial in Jamaica.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) will rule on Dancehall star Vybz Kartel and three other men’s final appeal on Thursday (March 14) at 11 AM (Jamaica Time), DancehallMag has learned.
Former Portmore Empire signees Sheba and Gaza Kim aren’t exactly in tune regarding Vybz Kartel’s possible prison release.
Isat Buchanan, the attorney who represents ‘King of Dancehall’ Vybz Kartel, told DancehallMag on Sunday that he’s eager to argue the Fever deejay’s final appeal at the UK’s Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on Wednesday and Thursday (February 14-15).
The nostalgia of 2010 Dancehall music pervades with producer NotNice gearing up to re-release his prolific Street Vybz riddim.
Incarcerated Dancehall artist Shawn Storm recently shared an Instagram reel, revealing the squalid living conditions of prison life in the General Penitentiary.
Incarcerated Dancehall artists Vybz Kartel, Shawn Storm, and two other men have provisional dates set at the United Kingdom-based Privy Council, Jamaica’s final appellate court, in their bid to overturn their murder convictions.
Today, in the first installment of DancehallMag‘s #ThrowbackThursday series, we take a look back at Empire Forever, a song by Vybz Kartel, Popcaan, Shawn Storm, and Gaza Slim.
Livingston Cain, the juror in the Vybz Kartel murder trial who allegedly offered the jury foreman $500,000 to get a not-guilty verdict in the 2014 case, was today found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
Jamaica’s inner-city, plagued by gang violence and political division, has served as inspiration for Dancehall deejays to deliver lyrical content.
Incarcerated Dancehall artist Shawn Storm is reportedly homesick and missing his family behind bars. According to the Jamaica Star, the My Life artist, who was jointly charged with Vybz Kartel for the murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams in 2011 and is now serving a life sentence for the alleged crime, is lamenting his time locked up as 10 years of his life wasted.
Portmore Empire artist Shawn Storm marches on even though he remains behind bars. The incarcerated dancehall deejay is set to release his debut EP, Freedom Street, at the end of this month, March 31.
Jamaican YouTube vlogger Tash Fierce decided to ‘shoot her shot’ yesterday by sending direct messages to a whopping 50 Dancehall deejays via Instagram just to see who would reply.
Defense attorney of incarcerated Dancehall artiste, Vybz Kartel has everyone tuned into the deejay’s murder case once again after his latest social media post.
Almost two hours before Christmas Day culminated, incarcerated Dancehall deejay Shawn Storm gifted his fans with an appearance on Instagram Live.
As incarcerated Dancehall hitmaker Vybz Kartel readies his case for appeal at UK’s Privy Council, several industry players have rallied with support for the artist.
Vybz Kartel and his co-accused are “elated” after being granted leave by the Jamaican Court of Appeal to appeal his conviction at the UK’s Privy Council.