Raziel Jeffers, convicted of manslaughter on Thursday, was sentenced on Friday afternoon to 20 years imprisonment. Chief Justice Anthony Smellie passed sentence after a 12-person jury found Jeffers guilty for his role in the fatal shooting of Marcus Mauricio Duran in West Bay on March 11, 2010.
The chief justice said the jury must have accepted that Jeffers was the mastermind of a plan to rob the victim, who was known to be a numbers man, and the supplier of a firearm to one of the would-be robbers.
Jeffers, 31, is currently serving two life sentences for murder [previous victims being Damion Ming in 2010 and Marcus Leon Ebanks in 2009]. The judge commented that he could not recall ever coming across a more damning set of antecedents.
For more on this story, see Monday’s Cayman Compass.
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