Kartel Trial: Attorneys squabble over handwriting expert
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Presiding judge in the Vybz Kartel murder trial Justice Lennox Campbell Friday morning ordered the prosecution to obtain a statement from a handwriting expert who had examined a letter from the prosecution’s main witness.
Campbell made the order after Tom Tavares Finson told the court that lead prosecutor Jeremy Taylor had failed to provide a report from the expert.
Tavares Finson complained that the expert had examined a letter for half hour, but a report was never presented.
Taylor then admitted that the process was abandoned, and the prosecution did not bother to use the expert.
He said that he told Tavares-Finson that he could instead use the handwriting expert
But Tavares-Finson responded that he was never given the contact for the expert.
