Appeal Court uphold appeal of Dean Hyde

And the Court of Appeal upheld the appeal of thirty year old Dean Hyde who was convicted of the murder of sixteen year old Dual Wagner Jr. on August seventeenth, 2007 and sentenced to life. A conviction of manslaughter was substituted for murder and Hyde was sentenced to twenty-five years. Hyde’s attorney, Simeon Sampson, appealed on the grounds that no identification parade was held and the judge had not properly directed the jury as to how it should approach dock identification. Sampson further argued that the judge did not give the jury proper warning as to how it should determine intention at the time the appellant fired the shot. Director of Public Prosecution Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Tait represented the respondent. On October ninth, 2004, Wagner was at the Bismarck Club and when he emerged from the bathroom a lone gunman shot him at close range in the forehead. At that trial, Carlton Lord, an inmate at the prison, maintained that he saw Dean Hyde, a man he’d known for ten years, shoot the victim.