It’s over a year that former drug-lord and don, Christopher Michael “Dudus” Coke of Tivoli has been imprisoned, and even agreeing to serve minimum 21 years, eight month sentence for already admitted crimes.
The Jamaican Coke highly anticipated, or at least the world on his behalf, awaited sentencing as finality of the Dudus saga… of his capture and court case which has snatched top spots in the news since mid-2010.
He was to have been sentenced on Friday, March 16, 2012 in a Manhattan federal court, but LAW is LAW.
So the ruling Judge laid down his ‘fair’ take leading to a further delay in sentencing. According to Reuters news, “Federal prosecutors must prove convicted Jamaican drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke’s life of violence extended far beyond his admitted crimes…” MORE HERE.
This arising after quick thinking and strategic defenders of the former kingpin hotly contested the government’s descriptions of Coke’s violent personality and lifetime of violent crime, according to the same Reuters report.
The defense lawyers made reference to unsolicited letters of various Jamaican nationals who wrote to the court with allegations of gang rape, domestic slavery, and torture of women by hot irons and being fed to crocodiles,” in their arguments to judge Robert Patterson this week in requesting the hearings.
“It is difficult to imagine how even the most temperate of judges would not be severely inflamed against the defendant,” Coke’s defense lawyers said.
The prosecutors thought they would have secured a 23-year sentence for the guilty plea by Dudus earlier, but now are expected to prove their case at hearings scheduled for May 22….. the Dudus drama continues.
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he plead guilty. there is nothing to prove
Technicalities of the legal world my dearie… he plead guilty to some crimes … but you know.. technicalities .. a case of ‘a life of violence’ must be proven… 🙂