Prosecutors have agreed to

drop murder charges against a Jamaican man in exchange for his testimony

in the drug-deal-gone-bad murder trail of Glen Simon Hamilton, which is

expected to begin Monday.

Paul Hylton, whom law enforcement

officials tracked down in Jamaica, was sentenced to 10 years in jail Friday

morning after pleading guilty to felony possession of marijuana. District

Attorney Bill McBroom said the charges are related to the murder Hamilton

is accused of, the shooting death and burning of Adolf Stubbs, who died

in March 1999 in north Fayette County.

Another potential witness in

that case, Clyde Lancelot Williams, of Jamaica, also pled guilty to the

same charges and received the same sentence as Hylton while the two stood

side-by-side before Superior Court Judge Christopher Edwards. He also

will not face murder charges in exchange for his cooperation, McBroom

confirmed.

Simon is accused of murder

and several related charges for the death of Stubbs, whose decomposed

body was discovered after firefighters extinguished the flames in the

Ford Explorer that fateful evening.

Attorneys for both defendants

indicated that they advised their clients that since they were illegal

immigrants when the crimes occurred, they could be deported.

Investigators believe Stubbs,

a Jamaican native, was in the Atlanta area for a drug deal. He was last

seen with one of the defendants transporting about 150 pounds of marijuana

in his vehicle, according to law enforcement records.

Investigators from the Fayette

County Sheriff's Department had tracked Hylton down in Jamaica and went

through the lengthy process of extraditing him