Sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for the murder of taxi driver Orin David, ex-soldier Jermaine Jefford has appealed his conviction, arguing among other things that the trial judge misdirected the jury on the law as it relates to murder.
He says, too, that the judge misdirected the jury on issues of identification evidence and the dangers of relying on dock identification of an accused person.
His contention before the Guyana Court of Appeal is also that the judge failed to fully and properly direct the jury on the defences he raised Jefford argues through his attorney Stanley Moore SC, that in all the circumstances the jury’s verdict was unreasonable and could not be supported having regard to the evidence.
