Things are looking up for Denroy Morgan. Arrested on 13 September 2011 in the Bronx by New York police in possession of 25 pounds (11 kg) of marijuana (news of 16/09/2011), the father of the members of Morgan Heritage left the federal court of the Southern District of New York, in Lower Manhattan, with a rather lenient verdict: 90 days' probation and a $25 fine.
In this case, the author of the hit I'll Do Anything for You (1981) was nonetheless facing up to 20 years in prison and a $300,000 fine.
Denroy Morgan wished "to thank God, to whom I never stopped sending prayers, in the hope of a merciful outcome in this case".
Sabrina T. Shroft, his lawyer, had negotiated with Judge Paul A. Crotty that only the possession of marijuana be held against the singer, and that it no longer be linked to the initial trafficking charge. The lawyer's clever argument, that her client's purchase of marijuana was intended for simple "spiritual use", thus hit home.
Denroy Morgan, who recently released his autobiography ("Shepherd Of A Man"), will be back on stage this Saturday in Queens, New York, at the "Christmas In The Rockaways" concert, organised in support of the victims of Hurricane Sandy.