The Tribune

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

A MAN, charged with murder, failed for the second time this week to show up in the Supreme Court. A warrant is still out for his arrest.

Cordero Johnson, 25, had pleaded not guilty on his arraignment in May 2014 to causing the death of Vernon Rolle Jr. At that time he was scheduled to go on trial on August 15, 2016.

However, an arrest warrant was issued for Johnson - who is on bail - when he failed to appear for a status hearing on July 27 last month.

He again failed to appear for his trial on Monday and again yesterday when his trial was adjourned from Monday.

Rolle Jr, 29, was found shot to death on a dirt road behind the Hollywood Subdivision off Cowpen Road on November 16, 2013.

The Monastery Park resident was found face down in bushes with a gunshot wound to the head.

Johnson faces a charge of murder under Section 291 (1)(a) of the Penal Code, which does could attract the discretionary death penalty or life imprisonment if a conviction is reached at trial.

He has retained attorney Calvin Seymour to represent him.

Cephia Pinder-Moss appeared for the Crown.