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Will Desmond Ballentine be freed from prison soon? It's looking likely.
Dancehall Veteran Ninja Man's attorneys were before the Court Of Appeal this week, seeking to have his case retried.
Per a Gleaner report, the Deejay's lawyers are claiming that years of delay deprived him of key defence witnesses and rendered the proceedings unfair.
They say that the more-than-eight-year delay before trial created “presumptive prejudice” because witnesses who could have assisted the defence died before they could testify.
And the Lawyers say that the loss of those witnesses left Ninjaman unable to properly present his case and that the prejudice caused by the delay could not have been cured by directions given to the jury.
In December 2017 Ninja Man and his co-convicts were sentenced to life in prison for the 2009 murder of Ricardo Johnson of Lower Mall Road, St. Andrew.
The entertainer was ordered to serve at least 25 years in prison before he is eligible to be released on parole.
His son Janeil and fellow co-convict Dennis Clayton were ordered to serve 15 years behind bars.
-SAPPHIRE
