'Charge or release Mavado' — lawyer challenges cops

[Lazie]

CHRIS Tavares-Finson, the attorney representing David 'Mavado' Brooks, has filed a writ of habeas corpus in court, asking the police to either charge or release his client.
A summons was served on the police this morning.
Mavado, along with fellow dancehall artiste Adijah 'Vybz Kartel' Palmer, spent the night in jail, after the police asked them to turn themselves in as persons of interest.
Tavares-Finson said the date on the application is set for tomorrow which means that if his client is not charged, police will have to attend court to explain why he was not released.
Both Mavado and Kartel are still being questioned by cops from the St Andrew North Police Division.
Police say both men wield considerable influence in the communities of Big Yard and Cassava Piece which run off Mannings Hill Road. The cops say they are to be questioned in connection with several serious crimes that have been committed in the communities in recent times.

[Sickko]

News

Kartel, Mavado freed
Supporters asked to remain calm
By KIMMO MATTHEWS, Observer staff reporter, matthewsk@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, November 11, 2010





POPULAR deejays David 'Mavado' Brooks and Adijah 'Vybz Kartel' Palmer were this afternoon released by the police after spending a night in jail.
Chris Tavares-Finson and Valerie Neita-Robinson the attorneys representing Brooks and Kartel, confirmed their clients had been released.
Brooks' release came a few hours after his attorney filed a writ of habeas corpus in court, demanding the police either charge or release his client.
Both deejays were named by the police as persons of interest.
"All I can say at this point is that he is freed and the police have no further interest in him," Tavares Finson told the Observer.
Neita Robinson said the same for her client, Kartel, but also warned that supporters associating themselves with the artistes "must be careful of the things they do as this is casting a bad light on the artiste".
Police say both men wield considerable influence in the communities of Big Yard and Cassava Piece, which run off Mannings Hill Road. The cops say they were being questioned about several serious crimes that have been committed in the communities in recent times.

[Lazie]

Movado tell him lawyer say, "Warn Dem! Tell dem again, nuhbody pon the gully nuh fraid a dem!"

At times one affi wonder if the police know what they doing? Suh after all a this, not even a spliff charge?

Same way last week a suspect in the Tredegar Park multiple killing was granted bail and according to the judge the police acted in desperation (or something along that line).