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Reggae star Buju Banton faces drug trial in Fla. JENNIFER KAY - The Associated Press 08:32:16PM (ET) Sunday,September 19,2010. MIAMI ...
 
 
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Old 09-19-2010, 05:39 PM   #1
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Reggae star Buju Banton faces drug trial in Fla.

JENNIFER KAY - The Associated Press

08:32:16PM (ET) Sunday,September 19,2010.

MIAMI (AP) — On his upcoming album "Before the Dawn," Jamaican reggae star and homophone Buju Banton crows about standing strong, though battered and bruised, in the face of a gathering darkness.

The songs sound prophetic — the four-time Grammy nominee recorded them before he was arrested on federal cocaine charges last December. The trial is scheduled to start Monday in Tampa — a week before the album's U.S. release. He faces a possible life sentence if convicted.

"I've been accused, wrongly convicted. Jah knows I'm innocent," he sings in his gravelly voice, invoking the Rastafarian God. "I've been badly singled out by beloved friends ... who sold me out."

Banton recorded the album's 10 songs last year in Kingston, Jamaica, before his arrest at his Miami-area home on a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. A grand jury indictment also charged him with carrying a firearm during the course of a drug trafficking crime.

He worked on the album with producers and engineers over the phone from Tampa-area jails, where the 37-year-old has been held without bail since the beginning of the year.

According to the indictment, Banton (aka Hillbilly)and an associate negotiated with an informant to buy the cocaine. Along with a third man, they allegedly met with an undercover officer in Sarasota in early December to buy the drugs. The informant told Drug Enforcement Administration agents that he also saw the singer inspecting the cocaine.
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