Louie Ganzie will wait for decision on his appeal

In another case before the Appellate Court, the decision in the appeal of convicted murderer Louis Gentle, a.k.a. “Louie Ganzie”, which was heard yesterday, will be delivered in the next session of the court. Ganzie was convicted of the murder of his ex-common law wife Takeisha Sutherland and is serving a sentence of life imprisonment. Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Tait was called upon to respond to only one of the points presented by Ganzie’s defense. The argument is that the judge should have let the jury decide if it was a case of provocation that led to the murder of Sutherland. Branker-Tait’s response was that there was no basis upon which the judge could have left that decision to the jury. Sutherland, the mother of five children; three of them fathered by Ganzie, was stabbed twenty-one times at her home on January third, 2007. Ganzie was convicted of her murder on December seventeenth, 2007. Ganzie was represented by attorney Darrell Bradley.