Buju Banton for court today
Embattled deejay, Mark 'Buju Banton' Myrie, who has been in Federal custody since December last year, is scheduled to return to court for a status conference today.
Buju has been held in Tampa, Florida, awaiting trial on drug charges. The trial is expected to begin in early March.
In a report carried earlier, Banton's lawyer, David Markus says the government entrapped his client in a drug deal.
In court documents filed in January, Markus claimed that the government used a paid informant to convince his client to buy cocaine, the St Petersburg Times reports. The defence is reportedly pushing to have the informant's identity revealed.
To prove entrapment, Markus will have to show that Banton was not predisposed to engaging in criminal behaviour and that the government induced him, an Associated Press report stated in January.
Banton was arrested at his home December 10. The 36-year-old, born Mark Myrie, pleaded not guilty to a drug charge in a Tampa federal court. He's being held without bail at Pinellas County Jail.
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