Coke lawyer Don Foote was unaware of the US deal?

[Time]

What US meeting? - Lawyer unaware of Coke's trip to the embassy
Don Foote, one of the attorneys who represented Christopher 'Dudus' Coke in the attempt to prevent the execution of a warrant issued for Coke's arrest, says he, along with other attorneys, will attempt to speak with Coke today.

Speaking to THE STAR last night, Foote said he was not aware of Coke's alleged intention to hand over himself to the United States Embassy and said neither was he aware that Coke had planned to turn himself in to anyone.

a judicial review
The attorney said he had been in dialogue with the police since Coke's arrest and said, "The team [legal team] will try to meet with Coke tomorrow [today]". Foote represented Coke in a judicial review which was being handled by the Supreme Court. Coke's lawyers were attempting to challenge the validity of the decision by the Justice Minister to give the go-ahead to proceed with the extradition matters. Reverend Al Miller, in whose possession Coke was held yesterday, said he and Coke were on their way to the US Embassy, where the alleged drug lord would hand himself over to US authorities.

[Rockman]

Finson is now unaware he is a senator.
Some interesting twists as they play their games.
So Dudus will wave his rights...,what does that say about Bruce?

Blessed

[Sir X]

JLP senator Finson stepped aside because of conflicts of interest , now he is back in the loop .Mr Coke is making a grave legal error.

[Rockman]

Yeah,Finson can't eat his cake and have it too.
Whereas I agree with Dudus' assessment,Finson shouldn't unless the threat is real.Lawyers will invariably exhaust all options before..unless....
What does that say about Bruce?


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[Sir X]

Weak or strong ? calculating or nonhalant ? my questions are more of why ? Dont know yet Rock just watching this one closely , my eye is on how quick it moves through the courts which would mean he has a good chance of getting out alive, if I hear a twist like Mr.Coke is to be charged with XYZ and then extradicted , I would take it as a death sentence.

[Rockman]

If Finson acquiesces to Dudus' requests then it suggests Bruce has no moral authority on which to stand,contrary to the image his artistic apologists are busy painting.




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[Sir X]

Agreed but isnt that a forgone conclusion regardless of what they paint.The relationship between MR Coke , Finson and Bruce has more intrique to me on a level of conflicted interest.

Whose interest does Finson serve ? Dont forget himself.Only the devil can look into that and see any sense in it.

I am a loyal observer.

[Rockman]

He served Bruce's(whatever face he wore that day,PM, leader of JLP or plain old Bruce)when he dropped(Hi Bricktop) Dudus as a client...,why would Dudus now retain him is indeed troubling.



Blessed

[Sir X]

Will Dudus tell all to the Americans?
Mark Wignall

Thursday, June 24, 2010


IF Dudus had “secreted” himself in that cool, quiet little country town about a mile out of Moneague, St Ann, he would have been in friendly and somewhat familiar territory.
The sleepy hill town is home mostly to small and medium famers and hotel workers who rely on American and European tourists visiting the resort town of Ocho Rios and hotels in Runaway Bay, and as far afield as where those attraction pockets exist in the parish of Trelawny.
COKE... if offered options to curtail a life sentence, he will take it
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The topsoil there is rich, but the base beneath is raw red with bauxite partially mined out in open and horribly scarred ground that represents a broken promise by foreign mining interests in the days when promises were cheap, our people were hungry and governments had no problems selling out our future as a result of secret, back-door decisions.
In other places, new reserves have been identified and this has stymied housing and other development by way of another promise that soon the industry will be revived, and once again huge, angry machines will tear away at the earth, remove its red soil, then fail all over again to level it, replace the topsoil and bring back life to farming folk.
Slow-moving and smiling old men and church-going women there are just as hateful of Jamaica’s violent and criminal side but they, along with their sons and daughters, somehow sleep well in the knowledge that in the 1970s and early 1980s it was the growing and export of ganja – a highly illegal activity – that gave the town much of its character and subdued affluence.
Against the long-troubling background of stark social and economic inequities and in a country where lighter skin shades bore a direct connection to wealth, respect and power, in the mid- to late 1970s, the “brown-man” ganja brigade and their black-skinned cronies carved out a workable partnership with the little man in that sleepy hill town that lasts till today.
Colombian ganja known as “Colombian Gold” had been hitting the streets of Miami, New York and Chicago in the 1970s, already deseeded and free of stalk. Jamaica’s “sensi” had its famed THC strength, but it was exported with seeds and stalk and fetched much less than the “Gold”.
So the motivational elements for the partnership played out in the cool hills above sleepy little Moneague, far from its role of bustling country town of the 1950s to 1960s. A few days each week a “big man” would drop off about 50 lb of ganja at many households there. The householders knew what to do. They picked out the seeds from the weed that had been infiltrated by male plants (it is the female plant that is smoked) and separated buds from stalk. Each time the “big man” came by or sent his police friends for the sanitised pick-up, a new 50-lb batch of weed was left.
Poor people began to add rooms to their houses and they bought new cars and some didn’t even have a plot of land planted out. And Jamaica continued in charting its crude but workable economic arrangements outside of the glare of the real economy and the tax department.
But then again, maybe my information was totally off, and when Dudus was taken in on Tuesday, he had been some place else. All that seems immaterial now. Even Rev Al Miller, that most misunderstood soul, is immaterial now.
Frankly, even though he may have tinkered with a bit of machinery that he was not quite adept at operating, it appears to me that he meant well. If he had called the US embassy to arrange for the Americans to pick up Dudus, would the contact personnel there be prepared to admit that there was such a call? Certainly, Rev Miller must have known that if that was in fact the plan, once it went off tangential to the primary objective, many would have been prepared to throw him under the bus.
Certainly, widespread tremors at the top of the Jamaican society will result when Dudus, 41 years of age, arrives in a New York court to face a possible life sentence on gun-running, drugs and possibly other charges which the Americans may spring on him. The age of 41 is near perfection for a man. I ought to know because I was once there. If he is offered options to curtail that sentence severely, he will take it. No man, especially one at the peak of his life-power, wants to spend the rest of his life living in a metaland-concrete cage.
With much more focus on him and his escapades than what his late father had received, any temptation by any paid infiltrators to arrange an “accident” while he is in local custody will have to be put off permanently. The eyes of the nation are on the police and the politicians.
If, as the Americans allege, he was involved in gun-running, did he operate only on his own account as head of what some still call the Shower Posse? Knowing that organised crime maintains its structure because it draws on and includes the input of the “powers” in party politics, the police high command and big business, it is easy to surmise who are those who have the most to lose.
If out of the Dudus trial in New York should come the names of smaller fish, the Americans will file away their names. The “ticky-ticky” will not be seen as persons of interest. The Americans will be interested in other Jamaican dons whose paths linked with the activities of Dudus. They will be wanting to have an “up front and close” personal appearance of big businessmen, politicians and policemen from high up in the ranks.
Soon the nation’s focus will be shifting to poor people’s natural need to see the mighty humbled. The residents of Tivoli Gardens and the memories of those who were used as cannon fodder will await the unfolding of the grand delusion as many of the “suits” who enriched themselves and lorded it over them by using the activities of the night expose themselves to the glare of public light.
He may have been a hero to the residents of Tivoli Gardens, a power broker to the people who played close to him and a quiet kingmaker to those walking the hallways of political power. But devoid of their hero, the people of Tivoli Gardens and other garrison communities now know who are their real enemies.
They need to see their enemies exposed, and the wider community needs that purging so that we can all move on. There are other troubling questions, though, especially the American involvement in Jamaica in the late 1970s, and I will attempt to answer those in Sunday’s column.
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[Rockman]

The there are no good people in TG will likely have consequences,he alone will get some justice for the people of TG.He will be seen as a hero by the disenfranchised Jakans living in TG,and I can't blame them.He like most before him likely will talk.One of two things can happen, new extradition requests naming politicians or we have a puppet Govt.



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[Sir X]

Let me share my fear , one of the things powerfull lawyers can do is manuver cases to Judges that they have a good or special relationship with that see things thier way , I see Finson as a slime ball and he will do just that .


He gave a hint what way he sees things when he dropped Mr .Coke when the extradiction was singed.

A judge could throw a loop in the whole thing , giving the impression that certain protocols must be followed to delay the extradiction request .Giving all the impression no one is at fault but the system of protocol.

In other words Finson can walk away looking like a saint if Mr .Coke bucks his toe slashes his wrist while waiting for judicial protocol to be followed.

I just dont trust him.