Continuing arguments in his client’s appeal to a murder conviction and a 57-year sentence, attorney Ronald Burch-Smith on Wednesday submitted that trial judge Navindra Singh’s sentencing system is “arbitrary, unfair and unconstitutional.”
State attorney Diana Kaulesar-O’Brien, who is representing the chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions, against which the appeal was brought, vehemently argued, however, that there exists no law which the judge’s sentencing offends.
Representing murder convict Quaison Jones, who was found guilty by a jury in 2014 for the murder of fellow fish cleaner, Marlon Greene, Burch-Smith is contending that Justice Singh’s method of sentencing lacks consistency and grounding in law.
