Controversial musician Vybz Kartel drove fear into a female juror who was discharged from the case, according to a prosecutor.
The senior deputy director of public prosecutions, Jeremy Taylor, said that Vybz Kartel approached the son of a female member of the jury in prison and said something to him.
The female juror told the judge about her concerns and asked to be relieved from jury duty, to which the judge complied and sent her home.
During his arguments in the Court of Appeal last week, the lawyers argued that the judge and the prosecution breached his client’s constitutional right to a fair trial when they discharged the juror from the 2014 murder trial.
But Jeremy Taylor claps back saying that the judge did nothing wrong since there was an apparent “ethical dilemma” in his decision.
