Gun law to face Court of Appeal test
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As defence lawyers intensify calls for changes to Jamaica’s controversial firearms legislation, a well-known St James businessman who was sentenced to the 15-year mandatory minimum after being caught with his wife’s licensed firearm is set to challenge the constitutionality of the sentence before the Court of Appeal on October 26. The 40-year-old businessman is contending, among other things, that the mandatory minimum sentence imposed on him infringed his protected rights under the Charter of F