Buju Banton Case Declared A Mistrial

yoraps.com: Buju Banton’s drug case was declared a mistrial by Florida judge James Moody after the 12-member jury sent him a second note yesterday (September 27), saying that they were unable to reach a verdict. They had been deliberating on the four-day trial since last Thursday afternoon (September 23).

In light of such, the Jamaican star’s attorney asked Moody that his client be released on bond. Banton has been incarcerated since being arrested in December after he allegedly attempted to purchase five kilos of cocaine from a government informant. He was then charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine and aiding two others in possessing a firearm during the course of cocaine distribution.

Banton, born Mark Myrie, has insisted that he was innocent from the beginning and his lawyers claimed that he was the victim of entrapment by the government and that ultimately he was pressured into buying the narcotics.

While talking on the witness stand, Banton reportedly said, “I talk too much, but I am not a drug dealer. When I realized this was real drugs, I thought, ‘This is a real drug dealer, and I want no part of it’…I was in over my head.”

If convicted, Myrie faced up to life in prison.