Buju asks to be released and deported to Jamaica
Jamaican musician Mark ‘Buju Banton’ Myrie, who is currently serving a 10-year prison term in the United States for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, has appealed to the courts to “be released and deported to Jamaica” according to reports.
According to a report by The Tampa Tribune, the popular entertainer who is scheduled to be freed in 2019 asked for an early release in the light of a recent change to federal drug sentencing guidelines.
Unfortunately the change won’t apply to most of those serving minimum mandatory sentences under the law.
Banton, whose legal name is Mark Myrie, is serving 10 years, the minimum mandatory sentence for his conviction on a charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
The only ways to get around the minimum mandatory sentences would require defendants to cooperate with investigators or at least give a full confession to their crimes.
In his motion, Banton argues he should be sentenced to 92 months in prison under the new guidelines. He says he’s been “working in prison since his incarceration” and has “very good conduct’’ behind bars.
He asks that the court reduce his sentence and turn him over to immigration authorities so he can be deported back to Jamaica.
The federal probation office in the Middle District of Florida has identified 1,748 inmates originally sentenced in Tampa on drug charges as potentially eligible to benefit from the change, known as Drugs Minus 2, because it reduces sentencing guidelines for most drug offenses by two levels. If projections hold true, the average sentence of 11 years and 1 month will be reduced to nine years.
Those defendants will not be eligible for release until Nov. 1, 2015.
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Buju I a good youth free him !!
FREE BUJU & LET HIM GO HOME~
Can keep a gooooood man down bless up buju dem can take ur freedom but dem can’t take away the love we have for u keep opening people eyes with ur messages
Commit the crime – do the time – then deport him….he brought shame to the music industry….
Send him home fi wha, why should him get special treatment? Mek him tan whey him dey!
Send Buju home please
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So much hater on here Buju rule
Everyone entitled to their opinion,but we all knw it was a set up,and u got ppl coming and voicing out on their fellow brothers/sister,but i hope they open their eyes around them snf see that as a black person u dont have to commit a crime to be killed or sentance,who watch the clip about the black with is shop where tge FBI planted the drugs in the shop but he didnt realise there was hidden camera in the shop…case close if u dont watch it log on to you tube and gt educated about whats happen..and remember blacks have no rights in America in you can look up that as well..freeeeeeeeeee Buju Banyon
America is jealous always looking for something so they can tear you down. Head up my youth
Let him cm home he is not the first a nuh him alone in a wrong doing and a so them all now Jamaica still don’t know the truth
Time to set Buju free!!!!! Release the man he poses no threat.
I was just about to tell u go and search and take ur head out their A..s, and stop shooting down ur black brothers/ppl I don’t condole wrongs but when u can apply knowledge with wisdom,u won’t be a stupid person,even when other race is wrong they stick by each er other,u guys live in America no need for me to explain anything in depth to both of u..god for the record Google buju court docs and read..its only never see come see wanna be’s, who will believe their most of there crop. ..pls Lord let it kot come to anyone of u door step..If it do pls remember this name..Jamaican born and bread till death do us part..straight…u guys need to emancipate ur self..and return bk to were u once belong in being ur brothers keeper
Free buju
Oh shut the he’ll up Janet…if u don’t have anything good to say just shout da he’ll up..ppl make mistake..karma is a bitch..why u would see anyone in jail not like he kill somrone U spit in the sky it will fall in Ur face..
to all d jack asses who are hating on buju!!! your time will come, mek sure when karma reach you ready, cause she is a bitch…. lov u lots buju
send home our icon…. buju to d world
Free up the one and only Buju banton can’t wait to hear something fresh !! Things change now you see she live hard why you Neva send the money come a yard new tune Buju love you none stop hold the faith soon be over
thats a good decision buju home sweet home
SORRY… BUJU GOOD LUCK….HE GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
It’s a good idea to free buju and deport him back a yard.
Kill us today u can’t kill us tomorrow
No early release .
fuk all you wos hating on gargamel big up my black brothers n sisters na sell out my race nuh day nuh tym som of yu fools n ot even fukin black just unu skin look black indians chinese white evry other race stick to gether but all you do is help bring us down innocent Buju free me boss love my race till i die fuk of haters n black skin with white heart the best of the best proud to be black proud to be jamaican i hope no evil befall you all an yur family wos hating on Buu B bless up 1 day tings must get better
Free buju ! Buju didn’t do anything but talk to a informer !!!!
Well we all know why buju is in jail, has nothing to do with drugs, one song
All, these comments there’s a lot of Hater’s in here.smh
Before I start calling the Buju haters names let’s just get a few things out of the way the so called friend was a paid informant for the FBI and he was told to do whatever it took to get a charge On Mark, additionally this guy was basically at it for years. So for all of unnu weh just was spew non sense understand this, the FBI & CIA regularly use this and other tactics including bribery, blackmail, direct threats. And in the case of Bob Marley paid assigns. #learn your history
They gave buju 10 years for conspiracy to distribute cocaine…RIGHT??? the CRACKER WHO KILL TRAVON , GARNER, MICHAEL &the list goes on & on & on..RIGHT….SO tell me now!!! is there any justice system inplace for African americans???? Wow!!!.. i really dont think so …all I can say…they are just oppressing the majority of the African Americans. ..that’s all I have to say…
Send home buju
Free BUJU
Free buju
Buju kip yah head above da water someday things will get better. #FreeBuju
Free Buju
in short buju must be free ;need not to juge another only JAH have that power
Black people never stay down for too long Buju will rise again. The white man always try to keep us down because they’re afraid of black people. Black people are not afraid we always get back and our feet.
You got black man pretend that they’re white, I got news for them step back and take a look in the mirror and look who you see.
Free up Buju
Some ppl here are just illiterate n talking garbage. Y them nuh fi send him home, an currently studying law at school n I don’t see the justice here why other inmates are eligible n qualified under the new law n he is not, with the same nature of crime. That’s garbage. The whole world know US is unfair n prejudicial. So all you JAMAICANS taking about him fi tan weh him deh you’ll either foreign minded r hating. Support you damn country n its citizens whether it’s good r bad. We’ll always be Jamaicans. Sad for some of u frighten ones. Wise up people…
Yo Banton just keep strong,cause freedom is a most,one day-one day.
@ Janet Margaret no no sweety you are ppl ah bawl free Gaza and he kill ppl lol bye free buju and mek yuh foolish self jump off a cliff everyday artist do things fi shame the industry lol
boy its only a pity
a hope dm sen im back 2 we normal cas dm a rasist
Free Buju
I said b4 and will say it again,everyone has their opinion,but they will always gonna be slayers,but god knws the hearr of everyman and only god alone can judges us not man,if u notice on here they are just a on finger count of negative ppl who are still in chains and shackles mentally,and we will always have them,but through christ jesus all things are possible and when jesus say yes no nody can say no,they may lock the body of Buju Banton but they will never lock his soul,and will never silence him even when him long leave earth as is voice will still be echoed over every hills and valley;and the same ppl he is trying to fight for are some of the ones who is trying to help put him down….in is own words I WILL RISE..father god have ur bk buju they done it ro christ so why wouldnt they do it to you…as you said Buju Psalms 23&27 pan dem..ur soul is free…bless up the sunday morning coz the haters teeth dem a fall dung outta dem mouth and dem tounge cleeve to the top of ther mouth…
He is free to express his beliefs no matter what they are. Free Buju!
At least he did not take anyone’s life. What is to be must be.
yea I word from I mouth,and di livication from I heart.from dem a gwaan wid dem fally a di first I a talk.all you guys unuh feel unuh smart but unuh nuh clever.feel unuh can pap,pull up and smash up rasta all di dutty heart and dutty though weh unuh have up,unuh can do all di wickedness unuh wah to flesh around here.unuh lock up unuh money,bank and chrit.unuh lock up rasta inna jail and prison.and unuh try send rasta to dungit.unuh can put dung a second life fi put inna yuh old body,yuh young body or yuh cahes.try memba dis mr.battacrabs.mi a tell unuh dis brinxs nuh falla hearse,dead man nuh bury wid wealth a weh yuh eat yuh get.
Free Buju
di man wah come home wi ready fi welcome him.unuh try damage di man career aready.yo just send home di man.wi deh yah a wait.volcano bun,lava bun,fyah bun.still burning.nah stop melt dem,fyah pon top a di wata.free buju send him home.bless head love.
Screw Buju him fi do the time. Big drug dealer!
FREE UP BUJU RASTA WAH GUH HOME….
U.S FED GUH SUK YUH MUDDA
Freedom is a must. …It doesn’t matter where you are in the world.
Buju Banton is my number one artiste but crime is crime, irrespective of your class, status, ethnicity, race or status. Buju is disappointing. He making it through music. Why getting in the drug trade? Drug destroy lives. Totally contrary to the conscious music de bredda sing. DO THE TIME AND LEARN UR LESSON BRO.
Jamaica
Sand buju home
I wonder if these people see the injustice against black and yet still yu believe in that system that convicted one of our own. A paid informant took him down I can happen to anybody who is targeted remove the the veil from your eyes.
No one is perfect under the face of the sun! Inocent people goes down sometimes for things they didn’t do.when you live in a glass house,dont throw stone! Never no what tomorrow may bring.ti de fi mi tomaro fi yu!dont tear yu brother down ,if he can get to go home.don’t grug him. More dangerous peope out a road wey uno fi worry bout…mor over authorities do a lot more worst than him .only that some of them no get catch yet.
(Set up) for shor
FREE UP BUJU BANTON. BLESS UP BUJU.
IF YOU SAY HE DID WRONG, WELL BUJU SUFFER ENOUGH FOR WHATEVER WORDS SAID TO THE INFORMER WHO SET HIM UP. 10 YEARS FOR TALK? HE SOLD ZERO DRUGS? THIS IS JUSTICE?
THE SYSTEM IS MADNESS. THE COCAINE BUSINESS IS STRONGER THAN EVER YET HOW SUFFER IN PRISON? MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES ARE PERSECUTION, NOT JUSTICE.
Dig out the moth out of uno eye first, before uno try to tear it out of your brother! Give peace a chance.what if god was to judge & sentance us by some of the things we do??…..be very very careful!
Only the almighty can truly judge a man every man of to go through own judgement give thanks to life every time.
Free the gargamel
@JanetMargaretDavis your profile picture says it all! Ur a fool yes cocaine kills but he’s one person one person can not change the world lol girl bye you need jesus!!! Your on here causing problems looking attention behind Kermit you must be an ugly soul …..
Free buju
Buju is the best… Pplz need to stop hating. He needs to get free.
Till Shilton, Mr Champion… keep the faith strong.
free mel now ya
Free gargamel.
Babylon Fi Leggo Mi DJ Mek Him Come Home And Sort Out Himself The Real Way, Get Back In The Studio And Make More Boom Tunes For The Masses.
Love you Buju. Keep strong. Jamaicans love you. God is able just believe.
You have some haters but dem can’t stop you. Just be strong.
I pray that god grant him favor. he is a godbof second chance, we all make mistakes,and people for the love if god my mother always say if you have nothing good to say you shut your mouth, I know if he was our family we will feel different BUJUneed some positive energy right now. no one is perfect. just saying. JESUS JESUS TAKE CONTROL.
If Buju could just see the heart of some people that they hate him, everybody do wrong so why crucify the man, so it go he has to learn from his own mistake nys god help me i would want help too
Dutty Babylon
Can keep a gooooood man down bless up buju dem can take ur freedom but dem can’t take away the love we have for u keep opening people eyes with ur messages up up up an stay up
buju wah fi come a yawd fi can do tune a prison to like kartel lol think di man a ediot
Don’t understand did he sell coke or was he just about to sell what happen why he got ten years
Free di boss mek him do road
Let him go home n see his ppl there
I am a big fan of buju its his faith if you do the crime do the time stop bitches cocaine destroyed families he needs more time the white man wan see him pick up that bible
Free him now them set him up bum by by in they head
Buju is my favourite artist from i was attending high school an till now he is still my artist mi nuh care wey nuh baddy wnt to sey bout him all a we have one blood,an a matta a fact a di whole a we kill jesuschrist.soh no one is perfect but god him self.
OK PEOPLE…..I’m finishing on this thread now. I have read every one of the comments and it seems to be that those who are for buju being released have the most hate in their hearts against those who want him to serve his full sentence. It’s those haters who need to realise that everything in life is give and take and having freedom of speech of part of it. Allowing others to have a different opinion from yourselves is paramount for this world to live in harmony because otherwise there will be constant war and hatred. Please feel free to make any comment you wish about me and my posts because I’m done. I wish everyone a blessed week ahead. One Love.
Look how many other things out there people dying from GUNS. You guys here acting like an expert silly free Buju, folks out there killing everyday and robbing from the poor take a good look and see who’s doing it all and getting away with it!
Who God bless no man curse It will be all over soon because who feels it knows it
Send him home free him up plz
how many time have he already served I don’t see them include that in the story.
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time… He won’t be home for Christmas:)
It’s not an easy road
I believe the good Lord’s will be done no earthly judge can overruled His will in any man ,woman life all we need to do is pray.
free Buju he is good person souch gentle
man
cum home yes noway nuh better than yard
Free buju
Janet Margaret Davis you say if you do the crime then serve the time. So what about all the cops shooting people and getting away with it huh?
free Buju let him come home to us we need him here thank you , in Jesus name.
free buju
Yeah we knw we ate talking a bout buju Barton, but what lots of us don’t realise no one is condoning anyone selling drugs,and that’s what run the music industries home and away,beating down on him won’t gonna stop the trade. Sex,Drugs,Rock&Roll, and pimps,cultism,we just have to pardon Janet Margaret Davis as her heart was broken by him,so she is happy that happen to him but he will be home soon whether she likes it or not, and some of us self righteous on here home u don’t have any skeleton in ur closet or ur family joke don’t wanna see u on my tv screen when some else’s shoe fit ur feet. #PS if they weren’t a demand they wouldn’t be a supplier and if they wasn’t any supplier they wouldn’t be any demand long and after buju the trade will continue..home sweet home garages ur things tun up..
It’s sad to see n know how much of a judgemental ppl we r , who r we to judge each other , let God do his job n in due time it will tell but untill then let him be , so what if he wants back his freedom ? Even if it’s another 100 yrs b/4 he’s free , he will be free again one day …. so lets just stop the hating on this young man , let him be because lot of us r doing worst than his crime only because we arent caught up in this crazy system as yet ….
Buju mi seh
How long shall they lock away and kill our prophets artist and heroes. While we stand up and agree with the nonsense. Janet Margaret Davis open your eyes. This world is built on deceit and lies. They call it new world. Open your eyes. Before it becomes too late
man must free babylon man
Free the man… everybody sell something to get by…
it hard it hard it hard mek dem nub send back buju cum a him yard it hard it hard it hard.. free buju
FREE BUJU
Free the I…give him the music make him gwan build
EVERYBODY DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE, GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO PROVE HIMSELF I BELIEVE HE HAS LEARN HIS LESSON
FREE Buju
Its not an easy road over hills and valleys but Till I’m laid to rest I wanna be love.
jamaica a call yu banton…..a full time yu come home
free him up a jah works
If y’all never knew, the
GAYS wanted Buju from he songed “boom-bye-bye”. Frankly Buju seem to have been drugged in some form so he would say things that can incriminate him, even when he did do such.That’s what happened. They were after Bounty in the late 90’s but he took a lawsuit instead, till they even took his US Visa. Still, Bounty Killa lives on. Goes to show you must be carefully around your enemies.
Freedom Fi buju 100% nuff love
he deserve to be release right now, free the man
Janet do u have a drug problem ? Not all Jamaican do drugs r sell it look around ur family u will see some drug dealer y don’t u weed them out
U duty bombo cloth
every one make mistake ,i think he spent a lot time paying for his, free him let him go home ,we love you Buju hold on to your faith.
Iam a big fan of Buju I live in England can somebody tell me why they give Buju 10yrs for just talking about cocaine I’ve already asked and no one seems to want to fill me in
All I know is entrapment.
They got so much things to say right now! Haters!
Thing will get better Buju soon stay strong
Buju may jah continue To bless you, they can take away your freedom but they can’t take your sole much love my brother
Janet Davis everyone is free 2 their own opinions but u need 2 understand. But e made a mistake and u all over him.Free him mek him come home.
Next time, DO NOT TALK TO STRANGERS and tell dem yuh business.
Buju, if you have committed the crime, then it is only fitting that you endure the punishment. I am not sure of the circumstances of the crime, but if he is guilty, then Buju, it maybe hot but talk softly and endure the punishment.