The musician, whose true name is Adidja Palmer, has been imprisoned in Jamaica since 2011 due to the unaccounted-for disappearance of his associate Clive “Lizard” Williams.
After a 64-day trial in Kingston, Kartel and three other defendants were found guilty three years later, and he was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 35 years.
However, he and his co-defendants filed an appeal at the London-based Privy Council, which serves as Jamaica’s and certain other Commonwealth nations’ ultimate court of appeal, last month.
His attorneys claimed that the trial judge had handled the claims of a juror who attempted to buy off other jurors in order to return not guilty verdicts improperly.
When the allegations surfaced on the last day of the 2014 trial, the judge found herself in a difficult situation because only 10 jurors remained after another juror was dismissed earlier.
