Palmer, Adidja, Shawn Campbell and Andre St. John v Superintendent of Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre, Attorney General of Jamaica and the Director of Public Prosecutions

Writ of Habeas Corpus ad subjiciendum. The Conviction of the Applicants on charges for murder, have been quashed but the issue as to whether they should be retried is still pending-Where a conviction has been quashed, and no verdict of acquittal yet entered, whether this results in the removal of the charge against the Applicants-Whether any further detention after the quashing of the conviction in the absence of an acquittal is unlawful-Whether there is a Lacuna in the law (Rule 57)