Monday, 25 March 2024

Why is the DPP The Hot Topic?

DPP Paula Llewellyn CD, KC

Amazingly, the amount of persons who are willing to support those who it is alleged to have committed crimes, especially murder is significant. If a police touches someone you will find hundreds including a significant number of women disrupting vehicular traffic and bawling out, 'Police brutality'. On the other hand, when gunmen kill civilians the silence is deafening most times.

Recently a convicted murderer had his case taken to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The media houses and the people got caught up in a frenzy in anticipation of the Privy Council ruling. The conviction was quashed. The conviction was quashed because a juror tried to frustrate the course of justice. The matter will now go back to the Jamaican court and the case could be retried.

The justice system worked. That is why you have the Privy Council. Now there are renewed efforts to target the DPP.  Politically she is not liked as per Trafigura and the criminals along with their lawyers do not like her. It is clear to me that many want her out of the system. 

Do you remember lawyer Izett Buchanan's comments about the DPP? I wonder what is the state of his suspension from the bar. The DPP is a prosecutor and not a judge. She should only be criticized for how she marshals her evidence and presents her case. Why is the DPP the hot topic? The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council quashed the conviction of the Court of Appeal and this had nothing to do with the DPP. What is on trial is our outdated laws and not the DPP. The system should allow the trial judge to continue the trial without a jury. The society that we live in will accept various types of jurors. The tainting of the jurors will happen again.

7 comments:

  1. Vernon, a lot of us jamaicans love the slackness, expecially the so call top top. Plenty of them is innocent blood put them where they are. People will hate you because you stand for truth and justice.

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  2. As for as I can see most of the Jamaican love the wrong doing and the people who are in high places who we think should know better they are the ones who are pushing the wrong doing I don't know what going to happen to Jamaica if it continue this way and if this man is not guilty of killing lizard why did they want to pay the jurors to say he is not guilty but God no sleep

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  3. Slackness,nastiness and corruption the hallmark of a fully fledged Criminals Paradise being embedded.
    This has become part of the socialization of our people,young and old.
    That is the foundation of one's culture ie the way of life of a people.
    Can you imagine a society where people dance to murder and mayhem.
    Murderers become defacto national heroes where people shout
    "Free their Boss".
    DPP Paula and her colleagues are Justiciable Freedom Fighters in the Struggle to maintain a Civilized Society on a rescue mission to save Jamaica from those intent on establishing a Criminals' Dictatorship for a Criminals Paradise.
    I and other conscious citizens stand in the battlefields for Justice with our DPP Sis Paula Llewellyn and others.
    May she be blessed with the wisdom to continue her Civilized quest Justice for all mankind.

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  4. What we should focus on is the messed system and not what happen if anyone did the crime or not. Seco dly, is not the Jamaican People supporting slackness but a loud mouth subset.

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  5. Christians need to go down on sack cloth and ashes and pray fervently that this particular criminal never sees the light of day. Then quickly fix the system so no other of this type have a chance of getting away

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  6. We do not like to conform to rules & regulations we like slackness 👹

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  7. I agree with most of your points but the jury system ought to be maintained and improved if necessary. One man - the judge can also be corrupted.

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