Kadeem Maynard’s attorneys have petitioned the presiding judge for leniency on behalf of their client. 

Ahead of the sentencing date for Oleanvine and Kadeem Maynard which is set for August 21, his attorneys have submitted varying objections to the pre-sentencing report and is asking the judge to consider a reduced or no custodial sentence at all for their client, siting that he ‘only made an introduction’ and was not a part of the alleged grand scheme to turn the BVI waters into a free passageway for drug  trafficking. 

Both Kadeem Maynard and his mother, former Port Boss Oleanvine Maynard changed their not guilty plea to plead guilty to cocaine-trafficking conspiracy earlier in June.  They are accused alongside co-defendent and former disgraced Premier Andrew Fahie. At the time of their changed plea, they both agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the case, and accepted what included a potential 10-year minimum sentence at that time. 

However, Kadeem Maynard’s attorneys in submissions on 7 August, have requested a variance of the pre-sentence investigation reports that were filed for both him and his mother. Their objections are that the prosecution failed to recommend a minor role reduction in their client’s sentencing suggesting that all Mr. Maynard did, was to introduce the Drug Enforcement Administration’s confidential informant to his mother Oleanvine, then the Managing Director of the BVI Port Authority. “Mr. Maynard did not falsify paperwork at the BVI port,” the attorneys declared. “He did not have the ability to arrange for the preparation of paperwork at the port. Mr. Maynard did not speak to anyone in the port to arrange for the transshipment of narcotics.”

“Mr. Maynard did not bribe anyone,” the document reads, essentially pinning most of the active criminal plotting on Kadeem’s co defendants – his mother Oleanvine and former Premier Andrew Fahie himself. “Mr. Maynard neither negotiated nor calculated the amount of money to be paid for the 3,000-kilo loads,” the objection reads, also noting that he was not one of those who traveled to Florida to collect cash from the confidential informant - that was Ms. Maynard and Mr. Fahie, who were arrested after boarding a plane filled with fake cash they were told was on its way to Tortola as their first payment in the scheme. 

His attorneys have argued that Mr. Maynard’s role in the drug-trafficking conspiracy to which both he and his mother have pleaded guilty was extremely limited. 

Kadeem Maynard’s attorneys are also making the argument that his daughters need him and that they all suffer from conditions which require ongoing treatment and monitoring. Medical certificates were attached. Mr. Maynard contributes to the upkeep of another minor daughter as well the submission argued. Letters of support from his wife, two of his children, the mother of his one-year-old daughter, and his wife’s cousin were also attached to the filing. 

“Throughout the past year, it has been extremely difficult for my husband to face the fact that he has let his children down,” wrote Sherisma Fahie-Maynard, Kadeem’s wife. “He worries that they may grow up resenting him for not being present for them.”

The attorneys also made reference to Mr. Maynard’s health concerns, his educational goals and his various business entities while pleading for a non-custodial sentence. 

Sentencing for both Maynards is scheduled for 21 August. 

Trial for co-defendant Andrew Fahie is set for 1 November.