Saturday, 10/9/10

by musicclipoftheday

If you ain’t losing, you’re winning.

That’s something I’ve always believed, as a criminal defense lawyer, and it’s something that may be going through the mind of this guy, whose federal trial in Tampa, on drug charges, recently ended in a hung jury and mistrial.

He’d been charged with trying to buy five kilos of cocaine. The defense, apparently, was that he’d been set up (or, in legal parlance, entrapped). A retrial is expected soon.

Bob Marley’s son, Stephen, appearing as a character witness, called him the “voice of the people”—the “voice of Jamaica.”

Buju Banton

“Wanna Be Loved” (1995)

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“Bondage” (2010)

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lagniappe

radio interview (from jail), 3/17/10