KINGSTON, Jamaica — Justice Jennifer Straw is to rule at 2:00pm whether or not the two cops before court in the so-called “Police Death Squad” murder trial have a case to answer.

The matter was adjourned a short while ago in the Home Circuit Court after the defence completed a no-case application and the Crown responded.

The prosecution suffered a blow today after Justice Straw refused a submission to admit into evidence an audio tape of one of the cops allegedly giving details about the death squad.

Corporal Roan Morrison and Constable Collis Brown are being tried on murder and wounding with intent charges following an incident in which Phaebian Dinnal was fatally shot and another man injured on Windsor Avenue in May Pen, Clarendon in February 2010.

Corporal Morrison is accused of killing Dinnal, while Constable Brown is accused of injuring the other man.

However, lawyers for the accused have argued that the prosecution has not presented evidence to show that their clients are guilty of the offences.

Attorney Norman Godfrey argued that there was no evidence, ballistic or otherwise, before the court showing how Dinnal was killed.

Meanwhile Attorney Vincent Wellesly argued that there was no eyewitness account of how Dinnal was killed as the main witness had testified that when the shot was fired he was lying face down on the ground.

Tanesha Mundle