And talking of Lil Wayne, back to the pop courts where a judge yesterday reopened a hearing relating to an illegal weapons case against the hip hop star, specifically regarding whether or not a handgun found on the rapper's tour bus could be used as evidence.
Wayne's lawyers argued not because they say the handgun was found by a police officer who, they claim, illegally boarded the hip hopper's tour bus. The police officer said she boarded the bus because she had reason to believe marijuana was being consumed on it. She admitted she never saw anyone smoking the drug, but said she could smell it and did see smoke.
In a February hearing Justice Charles Solomon ruled the gun could be used in the case, but yesterday said he will reconsider that ruling because new evidence has come to light in the form of a previously undisclosed police report that details the conversation that took place between the police officer and Wayne on the bus that day. The matter will, therefore, now be reconsidered on 20 May.