KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Defence handwriting expert witness Carl Major elicited much laughter in the Vybz Kartel murder trial Friday when he scolded the prosecutor for breaking his concentration.
Senior Prosecutor Jeremy Taylor had asked Major, a retired superintendent of police, to look at a document and to refresh his memory about his analysis of the key witness’ handwriting.
The expert, an elderly man who wears glasses, was holding up the document when Taylor told him to put it down as it was not in evidence. At that point the expert paused, removed his glasses, apparently perturbed, and stared at Taylor.
Justice Lennox Campbell explained to Major that he had to keep the document out of the view of the jurors. Taylor then asked him to continue.
But instead, he looked at Taylor, pointed and exclaimed, “You broke my concentration”, as laughter erupted in the court.
Meanwhile Major has maintained under cross-examination that key prosecution witness was the one who wrote a letter to the Public Defender complaining about his own statement to the police in the murder trial.
With that the trial was adjourned until Monday, February 17. more
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