Vybz Kartel Juror To Appeal Conviction For Perversion Of Justice

Defense attorney Valerie Neita-Robertson K.C will be appealing the conviction of Livingston Caine, the juror who has been sentenced to 12 months for offering $500,000 to the foreman to influence other jurors to return a not guilty verdict in the murder trial against dancehall artist Vybz Kartel.

The well-known attorney intends to challenge the authenticity of the audio evidence used to convict Caine.

“We intend to argue that the recording was spliced and overdubbed,” she told DancehallMag.

She added that the verdict is “unreasonable” having regard to the evidence.

Parish Judge Maxine Ellis sentenced Caine to 12 months imprisonment at hard labour when the sentencing hearing was held in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Thursday. Caine will benefit from ‘time spent’ and will only serve nine months in prison, as he was remanded on December 13, 2022, after he was found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice in Kartel’s case.

In the case in question, Kartel was ultimately found guilty, along with Andre St. John, Kahiro Jones, and Shawn Campbell for killing Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams in August 2011, at a house in Havendale, St Andrew.

The sentencing hearing had been postponed twice due to Caine’s illness that landed him in hospital. A social inquiry report, which was requested by the defense team and was not prepared, also stalled the sentencing.

Caine’s sister and daughter stood as character witnesses during the hearing.