PROMINENT United States-based attorney, Professor David
Rowe, says he has very little hope that reggae star Buju Banton's
entrapment plea will hold up in a US court.

Rowe said the US revelation that the prosecution has video recordings of
Baton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, tasting cocaine and participating
in arrangements for the sale of contraband, will work against him in a
big way.

"I see his chances as begin very low. He is on video offering cocaine
for sale. I don't think the entrapment argument has a great deal of
effort," Rowe told Chat! yesterday.

Banton was held in December last year by US Federal authorities at his
Tamarac, Florida home and charged with conspiracy to distribute five or
more kilograms of cocaine. This, following a sting operation at a Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA) controlled warehouse in Tampa, which resulted
in the arrest of two other men who were about to purchase cocaine from
undercover agents.

He has since argued that he was the victim of entrapment and his lawyer
David Markos, has publicly said he intends to argue along that line when
the trial involving Banton begins next month.