Vybz Kartel's freedom is no longer a far fetch fantasy after an appeal courtroom judge gave the dancehall star the green light.

On Midweek, Justice Frank Williams handed down maybe the most crucial ruling in the appeal process, giving the deejay'south attorneys the become-ahead to proceed with a full appeal. Kartel's attorney Thomas Tavares-Finson said that the judge read through all of the court documents and feel confident that there are grounds to entreatment the controversial conviction.

"Information technology'southward the first merely disquisitional stride in the appeal procedure," Tavares-Finson said. While this is only the beginning stages of the entreatment, the ruling is an important pace to heave the deejay'south moral and reinforced what his lawyers have been saying about the numerous issues with the murder case.

Thomas Tavares-Finson, the son of Vybz Kartel's lead attorney Tom Tavares-Finson, added that they volition proceed with a full instance in the Jamaican Appeal Court in September of this year. "Nosotros will move on to a full appeal in September," he said. "It is a limited victory, but an important moral victory for my customer, as it reinforces the notion in his mind that justice will be served and he will be acquitted."

Other attorneys representing the other co-convicts echoed the same sentiments. Shawn "Storm" Campbell attorney Miguel Lorne says that the four men stand a expert gamble of winning the entreatment. Bert Samuels, another attorney representing Campbell, is optimistically cautious, maxim that the entreatment will be but as difficult to prove as the trial.

Attorneys representing the four convicts, Vybz Kartel, real name Adidja Palmer, Shawn "Storm" Campbell, Kahira Jones, and Andre St John, have until June 5 to submit their skeletal arguments and by July to file authorization. The prosecution has until July 17 to make their counter-arguments. This means by the end of the year the appeal trial should be in full motion.