Legal

Lil Wayne sentencing date set

By | Published on Wednesday 16 December 2009

Lil Wayne was in court again yesterday to find out that he will finally be sentenced for those much previously reported gun charges on 9 Feb next year.

Here’s a quick recap of the case: 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 this 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 upcoming trial, which had been due to begin next month.

He is expected to receive a one year prison sentence, of which he is likely to serve eight months. Had the case gone to trial, Wayne faced three and a half years prison time.

In other Lil Wayne news, the rapper’s latest album was due to be released this week, but, as previously reported, has now been pushed back to 1 Feb. However, the last minute change, it seems, came too late to stop copies being sent to people who had pre-ordered it in CD format via Amazon.com. Some shoppers on the Amazon discussion boards confirmed earlier this week that the status of their order had been changed to ‘shipped’. And while some copies do seem to have been halted in transit, a small number apparently did make their way to customers.



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