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Even though Donald Trump commuted Kodak Black’s sentence this week, the rapper isn’t in the clear just yet. Kodak still has an outstanding sexual assault case, after he was indicted for allegedly raping a woman in South Carolina after a 2016 show. According to TMZ, prosecutors are looking to pursue the case until there’s either a trial, or a plea deal […]
Illinois just became the eleventh state to legalize recreational marijuana, which resulted in thousands of drug-related convictions cleared. Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker announced on Tuesday that he had granted over 11,000 pardons for minor marijuana convictions. He added that this is the first of multiple expungement that will arrive as the state moves to address “the […]
Meek Mill has been fighting a conviction for a decade, but now the Associated Press reports that a Pennsylvania appeals court has thrown that conviction out. Three judges came to a unanimous decision on Wednesday to give the rapper a new trial, citing clear police corruption. The Pennsylvania Superior Court has also overturned the trial judge’s parole violation […]
On Feb. 12, 2018, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was found guilty on all federal counts, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise. The trial, which lasted three months, attracted an unusual amount of attention and scrutiny, due to the elusive, dangerous nature of the defendant. Precautions were taken […]
Former NBA player Sebastian Telfair was found guilty of felony criminal possession of a weapon on Wednesday by a jury in New York City, TMZ reports. Telfair is due back in court in June for sentencing. He faces up to 15 years in prison. Telfair was arrested in June 2017 in Brooklyn, and charged with gun possession-related charges and […]
