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Since October, when he was granted a $500,000 bond in the federal gun cases, YoungBoy has lived under home confinement in Utah, where he has continued to record and release music. Celebrity chef Mario Batali was found not guilty of sexual misconduct on Tuesday after a two-day trial in a Boston court. In 2019, following subsequent arrests, including for a domestic violence incident in which he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery, the rapper was sentenced to 90 days in jail.
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In 2017, YoungBoy pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a firearm and received a suspended 10-year prison sentence, plus probation, stemming from his role in a nonfatal drive-by shooting for which he was originally charged with attempted first-degree murder. 1 with four releases in less than two years - but continues to exist largely outside the mainstream entertainment business, owing in part to his ongoing legal issues. Since signing a $2 million deal with Atlantic Records in 2016, he has frequently topped the Billboard album chart - hitting No.

Known for his raw reality rap, prolific output and obsessive online fan base, YoungBoy is among the most-streamed artists in the United States so far this year, competing with the likes of Drake and Taylor Swift. Why Youve got 40 million people who are on death. The rapper’s lawyers added: “The real issues are: 1) whether he knew the gun was inside of the car and 2) whether he intended to possess it. The LA riots happened because some people were found not guilty. Gaulden is a violent person and take those feelings with them into the deliberation room.” “It is not an admission of other bad acts but it does paint the rappers in a bad light and the jury may infer from the song that Mr. “It’s for entertainment,” they wrote in a court filing. Prosecutors had said that the tracks - “Gunsmoke,” “Life Support” and “Lonely Child” - referred “to an individual connected to the purchaser of the gun, the gun model found in his car, and the jewelry maker of the jewelry found next to the gun.” Gary Klausner, ruled to exclude lyrics from three YoungBoy songs from being used in court. “While we are disappointed with the verdict, we respect the jury’s decision.”Īs the trial started on Tuesday, the judge in the case, R.

attorney’s office in Los Angeles, said in a statement. “We believe the evidence presented in this case supported the charges brought by the grand jury,” Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesman for the U.S. Lawyers for the rapper said the gun was identical to an airsoft replica and could not be confirmed to be the same weapon. The photo was taken at the same Philadelphia shop that had sold YoungBoy the jewelry also found in the car, they argued. Prosecutors had sought to link the rapper to the weapon using a photo and video from social media of YoungBoy handling “a gold and tan gun that appeared identical to the firearm recovered from his car,” according to court records.
