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Judge Says Corwin Didn’t Kill Killa
posted (March 5, 2014)
Justice Adolph Lucas has ruled that 20 year-old Corwin Bennett did not kill 34 year-old Raymond "Killa" Gentle. And so, tonight, Bennett is a free man at home after 3 years on remand awaiting his trial.

Bennett stood trial for murder without a jury before Justice Lucas and his case finished last week Tuesday. After deliberating for a week, Justice Lucas delivered his judgment today, explaining that Bennett gave written statements implicating himself. He rejected the dock statement in which Bennett claimed that he had been threatened into confessing. And so Justice Lucas accepted the confession statements as proper evidence, he said the prosecution did not test their contents in open court to ensure that they were factual.

Because this was the main evidence that the prosecution relied on, Justice Lucas found Bennett not guilty, and he was able to walk out of court and go home.

As we reported, Raymond "Killa" Gentle was murdered on Kraal Road on January 20, 2011, where his assailant shot him 6 times. He was supervising construction works, and more than that, he was trying to transition out of the street life and lose his reputation as the Boss of the Kraal Road gang.

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