The Tribune

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

STEPHEN ‘Die’ Stubbs and two other men accused of murdering an off-duty policeman will have to wait two weeks before they know when they will stand trial for a third time.

Legal and pre-trial discussions, which began on Monday, concluded early yesterday morning with Justice Roy Jones adjourning the matter to November 28 for a fixture hearing, when a new trial date will be set for the 13-year-old case.

Like the previous two days, access to the Supreme Court on Bank Lane was blocked by barricades and heavily armed policemen from various units, including SWAT, as 37-year-old “Die” Stubbs was brought before Justice Jones.

Stubbs, Andrew “Yogi” Davis and Clint “Russ” Evans face a charge of murder.

It is claimed that on March 13, 1999 the three men murdered Corporal Jimmy Ambrose.

Ambrose, working as a security guard on the day in question, was shot and killed outside the now closed Club Rock Disco on West Bay Street.

The three accused men stood trial in 2002 and were convicted.

However, they appealed the guilty verdict and death row sentence in the Court of Appeal, where a retrial was ordered.

The retrial occurred in 2004, but ended in a mistrial.

Nearly a decade later, Stubbs and his co-accused are being retried for the murder. Davis was the only accused person absent from court proceedings.

Stubbs is defended by lawyers Murrio Ducille and Jerone Roberts while “Russ” Evans has retained Ramona Farquharson-Seymour as his counsel. Ian Cargill represents “Yogi” Davis.