Delay over drug dealers' appeal against sentence

Mon, Mar 5th 2012, 10:00 PM

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

THE COURT of Appeal deferred its decision in the cases of two men appealing against their sentences after being convicted of possessing drugs with intent to supply.

Following arguments from Jomo Campbell and Murrio Ducille, attorneys for Anthony Armbrister and Andrew Davis respectively, appellate court president Justice Anita Allen said the decisions would be announced at a later date as they are "matters of public interest".

Justices Allen, Christopher Blackman and Abdulai Conteh were told the four-year sentences meted out to the men were "excessive and harsh".

Armbrister, a penile cancer patient, was o ...

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