Jurors to start hearing testimonies Tuesday
Published:Monday | November 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Nickoy Wilson, Gleaner Writer
A seven-member jury has been empanelled in Kingston's Home Circuit Court to hear the matter against three Clarendon cops in the so-called police death squad murder case.
The jurors — three men and four women — will begin hearing testimonies on Tuesday morning.
They were empanelled on Monday afternoon after an earlier adjournment by chief justice Bryan Sykes.
Sykes had called the adjournment after learning of issues surrounding the indictment for the three policemen charged with the September 5, 2011 murder of Andrew Bisson.
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Detective Corporal Kevin Adams, District Constable Howard Brown and Constable Carl Bucknor are jointly charged with the murder.
On the resumption of the hearing at 2 o'clock, Sykes denied a request by defence attorney Valerie Neita Roberston for the jurors to be polled, possibly by way of a questionnaire.
Sykes also threatened to revoke bail for Brown and Bucknor after they arrived late.
Adams, the third accused in the matter, has been in custody since 2014.
He is to answer to three other murder charges.
This is the third trial since 2017 involving police personnel from the Clarendon Police Division.
In the first trial in March last year, Constable Collis 'Chucky' Brown and corporal Roan Morrison were freed of the murder of Phaebian Dinnal and the wounding of another man in May Pen in 2010.
In the second trial last month Brown was convicted on three counts of murder.
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