Let This Man Out of Jail

[BigBDrugStores]

We need another Hot Boy$ abum. Juve, B.G., and Fresh are all signed to Atlantic. Wayne needs to come to his sences. Damn you Memphis, Tenn.


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Free Young Turk

[WestCoasta]

I feel ya B

[QuietTruth]

[mauzip]

That song is classic

[BigBDrugStores]

In 2003, Turk followed B.G. to Koch Records, where he recorded "Raw and Uncut", technically his second solo album. In January of 2004, Turk was in a Memphis, Tennessee apartment when narcotics officers and SWAT team members stormed in. According to police, Turk shot an officer during the drug raid, but the rapper claimed he was hiding in the closet without a gun. In the shootout, SWAT team member Deputy Chris Harris had been shot in the jaw, hip, arm and calf.

At a preliminary hearing a charge of first-degree attempted murder was reduced to second-degree attempted murder but Turk was not granted bail. He was awaiting trial in prison as his third album, the aptly-named "Penitentiary Chances", hit the streets in April of 2004.

In August of 2005, after a lengthy trial which featured multiple delays and a possible case of witness tampering, a federal jury convicted Virgil of three felony weapons-possession charges. During the trial, Deputy Harris said he opened a double-door closet in the apartment and saw a bright muzzle flash, and that he immediately felt the bullets’ impact. Harris said he traded fire with someone in the closet and that he could see bullets flying through the door and into the ceiling of the apartment. Afterwards, the police recovered a 9 mm in the closet with six shells nearby. Ballistics evidence also stated the bullet that struck the officer in the jaw came from the 9 mm. While tests on Virgil’s hands came back inconclusive, prosecutors said the rapper had gunfire residue on his shorts. Virgil’s attorney Javier Bailey told the jury that the rapper never fired a weapon. He said that officers botched the investigation. Bailey argued that once police threw a flash-bang grenade into the apartment, no one would have been capable of retrieving a weapon. Six officers present at the trial testified that they never saw Virgil with a gun in his hand and none of them saw him in the closet, either. The leader of the SWAT team, Sgt. Perry McEwen, said that Virgil and his girlfriend were ordered to crawl out of the bedroom after the shooting. McEwen testified under oath that Virgil stated: "I thought we were being robbed." Attorneys made their final arguments on August 9, 2005 and the jury took just five hours to convict the chart-topping rapper.

Virgil’s attorney expressed disappointment at the time the jury spent deliberating and has vowed to appeal. Virgil faces between five and 10 years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on October 26, 2005. He is still facing an attempted-murder trial stemming from the shooting, but a trial date has not been set.

Virgil was sentenced to 12 years in prison on April 26, 2006 by a Memphis judge after entering a "best interest plea" in the 2004 shooting of a sheriff's deputy.

Virgil entered an Alford plea, also known as a best-interest plea, in which a defendant may dispute some of the allegations but accepts an agreed-upon sentence, to avoid a longer sentence if convicted at trial. The plea has the same legal effect as a guilty plea.

Turk pleaded to attempted second-degree murder and was handed the 12-year sentence. He faced up to 25 years if convicted as charged of attempted first-degree murder.

[ABN]

if their gonna free a rapper they should free MAC coz he´s prolly the only rapper locked up that´s innocent.

[Meho]

Agreed

[macknlatin36]

song aint that good.....just a club song (if that)

 

[Stone Cold is Bout It, Bout It]

 ...I was watching that video the other day.

[WestCoasta]

That song is classic

[Diabolical]

song aint that good.