Lil Wayne headed to prison after guilty plea in felony gun charge
Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne is the next big rapper to head to prison on a weapons charge. Weezy pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge of attempted criminal possession of a weapon, and will most likely spend one year in prison. From the New York Times:
In a 13th-floor courtroom in State Supreme Court, the rapper, whose given name is Dwayne M. Carter Jr., entered a guilty plea before Justice Charles H. Solomon, who reminded the defendant that the plea would have no bearing on charges that he is facing in other states.
Police said a gun was found on Lil Wayne’s tour bus in Manhattan in 2007. Lil Wayne acknowledged in court that there was a gun on the bus and identified it as a .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol.
In an interview, Mark Dwyer, the chief assistant district attorney, said that “the one-year sentence was appropriate,” rather than the two-year sentence permitted under the statute, because there were “difficult evidentiary issues” in the case.
The police used a debated, highly sensitive DNA profiling technique — sometimes called low copy number DNA profiling — to tie Lil Wayne to the gun found on the bus. Skeptics have questioned the technique’s reliability, The Associated Press reported.
First T.I., now Wayne — two rappers who most would argue are the top, best-selling, most respected rappers in the game. Oh well, if you do the crime, you gotta do the time. I’m sure Weezy will handle it the same way T.I. did.
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