{"id":113680,"date":"2015-05-23T21:39:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T02:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingston12.net\/?p=113680"},"modified":"2015-05-23T21:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T02:39:57","slug":"january-2019-is-buju-bantons-new-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/2015\/05\/23\/january-2019-is-buju-bantons-new-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2019 is Buju Banton\u2019s New Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay journalist <strong>Patty Ryan<\/strong>, staff writer for the <strong>Tampa Bay Times<\/strong> has reported that lawyers for Jamaica\u2019s reggae star <strong>Buju Banton<\/strong> (Mark Myrie) has made a new deal with the state prosecutors which will enable the artist release from US prison in January 2019. Under the new deal, pending gun charges which could have added an additional five years to his sentence will be dropped. In return the artist and his attorneys will cease filing appeals. The US District Court Judge <strong>James S. Moody, Jr<\/strong>. approved the settlement.<br \/>\nBanton and his attorneys made several attempts to have the original verdict overturned via appeals only to have the case returned to state court in Tampa, FL each time. He is presently serving his time at the <strong>McRae Correctional Facility<\/strong> in McRae, Georgia (located in Tefair County \u2013 33 miles southwest of Vidalia). Additional details on this prison location is available at the Federal Bureau of Prisons\u2019 inmate locator website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bop.gov\/inmateloc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.bop.gov\/inmateloc\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay journalist Patty Ryan, staff writer for the Tampa Bay Times has reported that lawyers for Jamaica\u2019s reggae star Buju Banton (Mark Myrie) has made a new deal with the state prosecutors which will enable the artist release from US prison in January 2019. Under the new deal, pending&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59,109,117],"tags":[257,292,383,402,438,473,495,564],"class_list":["post-113680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-music-news","category-news","tag-appeals","tag-buju-banton","tag-gun-charges","tag-january-2019","tag-mark-myrie","tag-new-release-date","tag-plea","tag-tampa-bay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/buju-banton-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":114328,"url":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/2017\/04\/07\/ikaya-writing-her-name-across-many-hearts\/","url_meta":{"origin":113680,"position":0},"title":"IKAYA: Writing Her Name across Many Hearts","author":"Sydney","date":"April 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The reggae music industry is heavily male-dominated.\u00a0 Throughout the years female artists like Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, Rita Marley and Carline Davis are among the very few that became \u201chousehold\u201d names.\u00a0 Today there is a new group of female artists who have kicked the door wide open. 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