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Lil Wayne sentenced (no, really)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 9 March 2010
Well, I bet you never thought this day would come. After numerous delays, caused by emergency dental treatment and fire, Lil Wayne has finally been sentenced and sent to jail for those gun charges he pleaded guilty to last year.
As much previously reported, Wayne was arrested in 2007, following a search of his tour bus when a police officer discovered a .40 calibre handgun.
He always denied owning the gun, until October last year, when he changed his plea following news that the prosecution believed it had DNA evidence that could link the rapper to the gun and that said evidence would be admissible in court during the trial.
He was originally due to be sentenced on 9 Feb, but at the last minute his legal team requested a postponement while he flew to Miami to see his dentist. He was scheduled to return to court again last Tuesday, but a fire in the basement meant the building had to be evacuated and no justice could be served.
Yesterday he finally made to court and was, as expected, sentenced to a year in prison (though he is only expected to serve eight months).
He was taken to Rikers Island prison in New York and is, according to his lawyer Stacey Richman, expected to be held in protective custody away from the general prison population, though the authorities are apparently still deciding on that.
Richman told reporters as Wayne was taken away: “He knew what he had to do, and he’s doing it”.
