According to Jamaicas Deputy Solicitor General, Lackston Robinson, alleged Jamaican crime lord Christopher 'Dudus' Cokes constitutional rights were breached during the extradition process.
Robinson made this statement during the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry. The point man in the Solictor Generalss Office on the Dudus matter alos asserted that the information from the intercepted communication involving Coke was unlawfully obtained.
He says Section 22 of the Constitution addresses the right of Jamaicans to private conversation.
According to Robinson, that right is not absolute, but the Interception of Communication Act sets out how conversations may be tapped.
He says only the Police Commissioner; the police officer in charge of internal security or the national firearms unit; the army chief and the Head of Military Intelligence Unit are empowered to apply for intercepted communication.
Robinson also says the order can only be issued by a Supreme Court judge citing that the law also stipulates who the data can be disclosed to and that any disclosure to any other person would be unlawful.
As a result Robinson says the policeman who intercepted the call and shared it with the US authorities was in breach of the law.
Robinson also told the enquiry that he had expressed concern about the quality of the evidence contained in the extradition request.
He says he was not satisfied that the affidavits from the US authorities enabled the justice minister Dorothy Lightbourne to execute her professional responsibilities.
Under cross examination from PNP attorney Leonard Green, Robinson said he gave that opinion to the solicitor general but not an advice.
Green later asked Robinson whether Christopher Coke was wrongfully extradited.
Robinson refused to answer but maintained that the wiretapping data should not have been shared with the United States.