{"id":16027,"date":"2012-08-09T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16027"},"modified":"2012-08-09T14:23:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:23:29","slug":"judge-rejects-buju-banton-plea-for-new-u-s-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16027","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rejects Buju Banton Plea For New U.S. Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 A federal judge has denied reggae singer <strong>Buju Banton\u2019s<\/strong> request for a new trial, saying there\u2019s no need because of a previous appeals court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the federal appeals court upheld the Jamaican singer\u2019s 2011 conviction on cocaine conspiracy and trafficking charges. The three-judge panel also sided with a jury\u2019s conviction of Banton on a gun possession charge, which the trial judge tossed at his sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court rules that there was sufficient evidence to convict the singer, whose real name is <strong>Mark Myrie<\/strong>, on the gun charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 A federal judge has denied reggae singer Buju Banton\u2019s request for a new trial, saying there\u2019s no need because of a previous appeals court ruling. In June, the federal appeals court upheld the Jamaican singer\u2019s 2011 conviction on cocaine conspiracy and trafficking charges. The three-judge panel also sided with a jury\u2019s conviction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}