Lil Wayne, The Rapper, Goes To Prison

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The Current Gun Control Laws Are Not Enforced To The Full Extent That The Law Allows

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"part of a plea bargain for a reduced one-year sentence."

"could be released in eight months pending good behavior."

Lil Wayne arrived Tuesday at the Rikers Island jail to begin his one-year prison term on a weapons conviction, according to The Associated Press.
The rapper (real name: Dwayne Carter Jr.) pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. The charge stemmed from a July 2007 arrest. Wayne had previously pleaded not guilty, but later admitted to having a loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun on his tour bus as part of a plea bargain for a reduced one-year sentence.

Lil Wayne pleads guilty to weapons possession

Wayne — whose sentencing was twice postponed in the past month, first for his dental work, then because of a courthouse fire — could be released in eight months pending good behavior.

In the past few months, the 27-year-old rapper, whose latest album, Rebirth, debuted at No. 2 last month, held a "farewell tour."

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Rapper T.I. Sentenced to One Year on Gun Charges

What's wrong with our laws ?

Those laws are not being enforced; this is living proof.

Andrew Young suggested that, “The civil rights movement, in many ways, was a campaign against white violence in America” that was largely “won by judges” who relied on “creative thinking” to promote racial equality and end racial violence in the South. Young thankePannell for engaging in a similar kind of creative thinking in sentencing Harris.

Harris' community work since his arrest has made visible inroads in “black violence in our society” that is “perhaps now more dangerous to the community than white violence had ever been,” Young explained.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Friday for illegally possessing machine guns and silencers, as prosecutors lauded his anti-violence advocacy since his arrest.

T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, originally faced up to 20 years in prison and the effective end of his career but performing community service as part of his plea agreement with prosecutors reduced his sentence.

The rapper, who has a 1998 crack cocaine conviction that made it illegal for him to own guns, pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing machine guns and silencers and possession of firearms by a convicted felon.

The charges stemmed from T.I.'s October 13, 2007, arrest by federal agents after the rapper had a bodyguard buy machine guns and silencers for him, prosecutors said.

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Andy Young speaks up for rapper T.I. in sentencing

At the hearing, former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s most trusted lieutenants, praised the judge as he spoke on Harris' behalf.

Young suggested that, “The civil rights movement, in many ways, was a campaign against white violence in America” that was largely “won by judges” who relied on “creative thinking” to promote racial equality and end racial violence in the South. Young thanked Pannell for engaging in a similar kind of creative thinking in sentencing Harris.

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"The rapper, who has a 1998 crack cocaine conviction that made it illegal for him to own guns".

The firearms he was possessing, required federal stamps, because were classified as full auto machine guns and low report sound suppressors. For each federal offense, TI should have been charged a minimum of ten years for each offense, in a Federal Prison.

Why the Year and One Day sentence ?

Because, an inmate in a Federal Prison can received time off for good behavior, only if they are sentence to more than a year. The year might turn into 10 months.