LA Lewis says he’s studying law - Upbeat after beating Road Traffic Act charge

Controversial entertainer LA Lewis said that he is working to add the title of attorney-at-law to his resume.

Lewis made this bold statement days after he was freed of breaches of the Toll Road Act in the St Catherine Parish Court. He represented himself in court.

"I am already studying law. I am studying criminology and political science law. Mi have mi law books them. I have been doing online courses and I dedicate this case to the late Antoinette Haughton as she teach mi a lot. I can show the public all of my law books. This is not the first case I have represented myself with. I have 'wented' to court a number of times and all of that is documented," he said.

Allegations were that on April 30, 2023, Lewis drove through the toll plaza in Portmore, St Catherine, twice without paying and damaged a barrier in the process. Parish Judge Janelle Nelson-Gayle indicated that the Crown would not be successful to prove the matter in which Lewis was charged and discharged the case. Lewis said he successfully argued that the evidence that the prosecutors took to court was merely 'hearsay'.

"I went into the case study to show that it was unconstitutional to hold on to the emperor without 'I see' evidence. Now they (prosecutors) came in court when they never see me with their own eyes and that was weak. Remember, it was the computer who saw me but dem put in the case say a dem see mi and that was giving false statement. Otherwise from that now, they said I have damaged the property. But at the end of the day, there was no evidence to show that I did. I did my own investigation and came to court ready and presented it," Lewis said.

The entertainer, whose given name is Horace Lewis, said that despite the belief of some, there is nothing supernatural about his acquittal.

"A lot of people a say a 'guzzu' (obeah) mi use and win the case but no. I just won this case for Mrs Haughton because she was the one who was my first teacher of law," he said.

Lewis added that while he continues to have faith in the judicial system, he cannot say the same for the country's leaders.

"I am hoping to see the people in the courthouse get better pay because the files dem back up. There is a lot of backlog. When I become the ruler of Jamaica, people are going to see the difference," he said with a straight face.