Dancehall star Vybz Kartel is free. The Court of Appeal just ruled that he and three co-accused should not be retried for murder. Freedom, a day before Jamaica celebrates Emancipation Day, caps an almost 13-year journey of arrests, trial, convictions, and a successful appeal.
BREAKING: Vybz Kartel has been freed.
The Court of Appeal freed the artiste, whose given name is Adijah Palmer, this afternoon when it unanimously decided against ordering a retrial for the 2011 murder of Clive Lizard Williams.
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