The United States Government may have made a blunder in theBuju Banton drug trial.
According to reports, the US government failed to bring Buju to trial before 70 days, a right guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment.
The Speedy Trial Act refers to one of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution to defendants in criminal proceedings. The right to a speedy trial, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, is intended to make sure that defendants are not subjected to unreasonably lengthy incarceration prior to a fair trial.
Buju’s lawyers last week filed an appeal in a Georgia Court of Appeal citing the violation of the act and that the Grammy winning entertainer was entrapped.
Violations of the act may result in dismissal of a criminal case.
Buju Banton is currently serving a 10-year sentence in a Federal Correctional Institution in Miami, Florida.
Buju Banton is today (29/11/11) being relocated to another prison.
The reggae entertainer, who went from Florida to Oklahoma to Texas, then back to Oklahoma is en route to the Federal Correctional Institution in Miami,according to his lawyer David Oscar Markus.
In an exclusive interview, David Markus tells Music News that Buju was at one of the worst places you can imagine. He explains that the facility was filled with Mexicans who were awaiting deportation.
In relating news, a benefit concert is to be held for the incarcerated reggae entertainer on December 3 in Tampa, Florida. The lineup includes Delly Ranx, Gramps Morgan, Nadine Sutherland, Glen Washington and Norris Man among others. Proceeds from the concert will go towards Buju's efforts to appeal his conviction and ten year prison sentence.
Buju Banton was sentenced for drug related charges stemming from a December 2009 incident in which he allegedly conspired to organize a drug deal in a police controlled warehouse.
Buju Banton is free of the shackles and chains that confined him to the walls of his prison cell in Florida.The artiste whose real name is Mark Myrie was on Tuesday released from custody and placed under house arrest with several strict conditions to his bail.
Buju faces charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, aiding and abetting two others in possessing a firearm during the course of distribution.
Banton has been fitted with a GPS monitor and has to pay for private security that will monitor his movements 24 hrs a day. He will only be able to visit his lawyer and if needs be his doctor.
The Gargamel has had to turn over the keys to his Tamarac condo and also will not have access to the security code for the complex and will only be allowed one visitor per day.
Stephen Marley, the son of reggae icon Bob Marley, posted his south Florida home to secure Buju’s release.
The retrial in the reggae superstar’s high profile drug battle against the United States government has been pushed back until February 2011 instead of a date in December.
The international reggae entertainer had been behind bars in a Florida jail for the past 11 months.
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