THE ganja trial of dancehall artiste Adidjah Palmer, popularly known as Vybz Kartel, is scheduled to begin in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on May 22 after a three-month delay.

The new trial date was scheduled on Monday in the absence of the jailed deejay who was not brought to court.

Resident Magistrate Maxine Ellis, who is presiding over the matter, gave instructions for a writ to be issued for Palmer to be released from the facility where he is being kept and be present in court on the next date.

Kartel was charged with possession of ganja last November after police raided a hotel in New Kingston and reportedly found the ganja in a room occupied by the artiste.

In the meantime Palmer is to appear before the Home Circuit Court on Friday in relation to the murders of Barrington ‘Bossie’ Bryan and Clive Williams otherwise called ‘Lizard’.

On Friday it is expected that the defense lawyers in the case relating to Williams will be in possession  of audio and video evidence which Justice Marjorie Cole-Smith asked prosecution to release.

Police allege that Williams was taken to a house in Havendale, St Andrew last August where he was beaten and stabbed to death over the disappearance of an illegal firearm.

According to investigators there are telephone data and forensic material connecting Kartel to Williams murder. Deejay, Shawn ‘Shawn Storm’ Campbell, fashion designer, Calvin Haye,  Cayro Jones, Sean Williams, and Andre St John are also charged in the matter.

In the other matter Bryan was reportedly shot dead while standing among a group of persons in Gregory Park, St Catherine, in July last year. Kartel is charged along with Nigel Thompson and Lenburgh McDonald.