Posted on 04/12/2007 9:38:43 AM PDT by blam
No Prison For Snoop - This Time
04:48 PM, April 12th 2007
by Moni Constantinescu
He was looking at jail time but Snoop Dogg has escaped being convicted for sale or transportation of marijuana and possession of a gun.
The rapper, real name Calvin Broadus, was given a three years suspended sentence and handed five years of probation by a Californian court. He will also perform 900 hours of community service. He can serve half of the hours working with the youth American football team that he owns.
Broadus was arrested last year after police found a gun and marijuana in his car after it parked too long in a passenger loading area at Burbank airport.
His lawyer Donald Etra says, “He recognizes the severity of this. He recognizes he got a great a deal and he fully intends to make sure nothing prohibits him from keeping his part of the bargain.”
Not keeping his part of the bargain could mean a whole lot of trouble for Snoop, as he has been involved in legal imbroglios before, each time escaping potentially nastier consequences.
He already has a 1990 felony conviction for possession of drugs for sale. Three years later, he was charged with gun possession after being stopped in a vehicle. He pleaded guilty in exchange for three years’ probation and a promise to make anti-violence public service announcements.
Another three years later, in 1996 Snoop was acquitted of murder. An alleged street gang member was shot fatally from the car in which Snoop was traveling.
Last month the rapper was arrested in Sweden on suspicion of minor drug offenses, and released pending the results of drug tests. Stockholm police stopped him and two companions on their way to a postconcert party in the Swedish capital and found a small amount of drugs in the vehicle, though it was unclear whether the contraband belonged to the rapper.
He was also banned from the UK in late March, as the Home Office refused to grant him a visa. On account of his past and present troubles with the law, his presence in the UK was not considered beneficial to British citizens.
Snoop has been banned from the UK before, back in April 2006, when he and five members of his entourage were arrested at London's Heathrow Airport on charges of violent disorder after getting into a nasty fight with police and airport staff.
He also has a pending criminal case of trying to board a California plane in November 2006 with a dangerous weapon, a collapsible baton. He faces three years in prison if convicted in that case.
The fix was in.
I bet Calvin is really remorseful. However, both are stupid laws that shouldn’t be on the books anyway.
It’s a dog’s life.
A record as long as an arm and he gets probation. A record for drugs and violence and he gets probation. It sure pays to be a rich black celebrity .
Well after all its a California court,that explains a lot.
Which laws are those?? The marijuana charge or the felon in possession of a gun charge???
He’ll never clear the five-year probationary period. Not a chance.
Interesting that there are probably thousands of people in the California State prison system for the same charges. Just about any other felon caught with a gun goes to jail and does not pass go. He’s skated by everytime. They never charged him back in 1994 with illegally employing a bodyguard(a felon can not have an armed bodyguard).
Do we really need to do a drug test on Snoop??
Well, he's facing that pending case where you or I would get three years in federal prison. Gosh, I wonder what he'll get?
They wouldn't dare give him probation again, would they? Gee, that would make a mockery of the justice system and simply encourage him to continue his bad behavior, wouldn't it?
A “Joe Average” would already be serving a prison term. Kind of makes you ashamed to be American.
“He already has a 1990 felony conviction for possession of drugs for sale. Three years later, he was charged with gun possession after being stopped in a vehicle. He pleaded guilty in exchange for three years’ probation and a promise to make anti-violence public service announcements.”
I am sure his anti-violence announcements reached as many people as “187 on a motherf*@%(* cop.”
What a joke.
Where is Al Sharpton’s outrage that a poor black man would never get off on these charges?
WHAT????????????? You're kidding right????
He already has a 1990 felony conviction for possession of drugs for sale.
Why would a guy with his celebrity and money have to be SELLING drugs for?
Certainly not for money. It’s just a way of life for his CULTURE.
Wow. Felon with a gun gets off. Nice message for “the children.”
He has to maintain a certain ‘Image’ in order to sell records
He has to maintain a certain ‘Image’ in order to sell records
I remember this. His gun-toting posse nearly got mown down by Airport security as well, IIRC.
No joke. Its illegal for a person employed by a felon to carry a firearm or ammo. Its a federal law. The rationale is that the person is essentially armed themselves if they have an armed bodyguard.
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