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Dudus' sentencing postponed again
BY HAROLD G BAILEY
Monday, February 27, 2012
NEW YORK, USA — Former Tivoli Gardens strong man Christopher (Dudus) Coke, will have to wait until March 16,to learn whether or not he will spend the next 23 years in Prison here.
Coke was scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow but Judge Robert P Patterson approved a request by Defense attorney, Stephen H Rosen to postpone the sentencing.
Yesterday's postponement marks the third such since Coke was first scheduled to be sentenced in December.
Rosen requested the postponement to give the defense time to respond to a recommendation by prosecutors that Coke be given the maximum 23 year sentence allowed under a plea deal which was arrived at last August.
In their recommendation, prosecutors painted Coke as being so powerful while in Jamaica that he enjoyed virtual immunity from law enforcement.
Coke's defense team is expected to paint a different picture of their client, by pointing to his charitable work in Tivoli.
Last year Coke who has been incarcerated here since June 2010 wrote to Judge Patterson seeking leniency in his sentencing.
And noted defense attorney Mark Golding said yesterday's postponement will give Coke's defense team an opportunity to rebut the recommendation made by prosecutors.
He said that there is no winner nor loser in delaying sentencing, since Coke will be given credit for the time he is incarcerated.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1ncUx5vYg
BY HAROLD G BAILEY
Monday, February 27, 2012
NEW YORK, USA — Former Tivoli Gardens strong man Christopher (Dudus) Coke, will have to wait until March 16,to learn whether or not he will spend the next 23 years in Prison here.
Coke was scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow but Judge Robert P Patterson approved a request by Defense attorney, Stephen H Rosen to postpone the sentencing.
Yesterday's postponement marks the third such since Coke was first scheduled to be sentenced in December.
Rosen requested the postponement to give the defense time to respond to a recommendation by prosecutors that Coke be given the maximum 23 year sentence allowed under a plea deal which was arrived at last August.
In their recommendation, prosecutors painted Coke as being so powerful while in Jamaica that he enjoyed virtual immunity from law enforcement.
Coke's defense team is expected to paint a different picture of their client, by pointing to his charitable work in Tivoli.
Last year Coke who has been incarcerated here since June 2010 wrote to Judge Patterson seeking leniency in his sentencing.
And noted defense attorney Mark Golding said yesterday's postponement will give Coke's defense team an opportunity to rebut the recommendation made by prosecutors.
He said that there is no winner nor loser in delaying sentencing, since Coke will be given credit for the time he is incarcerated.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1ncUx5vYg