JAY Z IS...GUILTY!GUILTY!GUILTY!OHH GUILTY!

[C_R_O_N_I_C_I]

from mtvnews
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Jay-Z pleaded guilty Wednesday morning (October 17) to stabbing record producer Lance "Un" Rivera in December 1999 and is expected to be sentenced to probation.

He faces up to three years' probation for the third-degree assault charge, according to a spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney's office.

The incident took place December 2, 1999, at the Kit Kat Club on West 43rd Street in Manhattan, at a listening party for Q-Tip's solo album Amplified. Jay-Z, who had performed earlier that night at a separate party for his own then-new album, The Life and Times of S. Carter, had denied any wrongdoing from the start .
A sentencing hearing is scheduled for December 6.

A spokesperson for defense attorney Murray Richman confirmed the guilty plea but offered no further comments.

Spokespersons at Island Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella, the label Jay-Z co-founded with Damon Dash, couldn't comment by press time.

Before the plea, Jay-Z faced up to 15 years in jail on charges of felony assault in the second degree if found guilty at trial.

The case had been rescheduled numerous times since Jay-Z's arrest on December 3, 1999 .
Besides avoiding jail time for the December assault, the gun-possession charge Jay-Z was arrested on earlier this year was dismissed Tuesday, according to a Manhattan district attorney spokesperson. The rap star, bodyguard Hamza Hewitt and two other men were arrested April 13 when New York police found a loaded .40-caliber Glock in Hewitt's waistband (see "Jay-Z Arrested On Gun Charge"). Hewitt admitted sole ownership of the firearm, and Judge Charles Solomon dismissed the charges against the other three men. Hewitt will be sentenced for criminal possession of a weapon on December 4.

[teecee]

It's kinda bullshit that jsut cuz you famous you only get 3 years probation for stabbin somebody.  This shit is crazy, especially since Lance Un Riviera was Biggie's close friend and Jay Z always acts like him and Biggie was tighter than shit.  Oh well, i am glad Jay is free to make music i guess...

[Cliftone_Santiago_909]

Yeah that is fucked up. Anyone else would have gotten years! I know someone who's doing 7 years just for BEING there when someone else stabbed this other guy...

It's also funny how Jay Z's been talking about being innocent, not guilty, for tha last couple years and then he turns around and pleads guilty.

[P Nelson]

If you had the choice... Plead guilty and have a 3 years prob. or keep on fightting crooked judges to finaly have 15 years, I think the choice is clear

[Top-Dogg2001]

Thats nothing. He's really lucky to get 3 years probation. Wouldn't it be crazy to see how the rap game would react if jigga went to prison. Who do you think would become the top dog of the game.

[infinite59]

Thats nothing. He's really lucky to get 3 years probation. Wouldn't it be crazy to see how the rap game would react if jigga went to prison. Who do you think would become the top dog of the game.

The only difference would be that DMX would dethrone Jigga as most overatted rapper, but once Jigga came back from the pen there would be enough hype for him to once again reclaim his spot as the  most overated rapper in history.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

Now I predict Fabulous will take Jay Z's thrown as "Owning Rap" (In the medias prospective)...

[Sikotic™]

Not guilty, y'all got to feel me???

Remember that song with R. Kelly "Jiggas Not Guilty"?

[ZILLA THA GOODFELLA]

Not guilty, y'all got to feel me???

Remember that song with R. Kelly "Jiggas Not Guilty"?

Ya I know, he made peeps feel sorry 4 him..........Now he pleads guilty...........wat tha fuck

[Don Jacob]

woa this is kinda strange he makes a big ass deal about not being guilty and then changes his story (regardless if he's doing this for minimum penalty to get it over with ...he has WELL over enough money and good lawyers to bail him out but doesn't )

but he stabs a dude and only gets 3 years??
all i got to say is whoever issued that sentence must be a huge jay-z dick rider becuase i know kids who have stabbed peeps and are thrown in jail for at least 6 months, god my dad had a stricter sentence than this and all he did was get in fist fight ....this is bullshit

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

I bet I Geezy was the judge...LoL

[DreSnoop00]

lol... damn why u gotta stab a person? just knock em out... but i kno 3 year probations isnt enough but hes got tha money to cover for it

[TheShiznit227]

I got a year probation, 30 days in CSI (juvi) for fightin' at a U or M game when i was 15...just cuz somebody hit someone witta bottle and cut his head all open and fucked him up, me and this other kid were the only ones that got caught so we got charge for all that happened...

[TheShiznit227]

I got a year probation, 30 days in CSI (juvi) for fightin' at a U or M game when i was 15...just cuz somebody hit someone witta bottle and cut his head all open and fucked him up, me and this other kid were the only ones that got caught so we got charge for all that happened...

Ohh shit i forgot the point...If Jay-Z woulda done that ish, he wouldnt even get probation, and if i stabbed some muh'fucka or any other young teen (black, white, hispanic etc...) we'd be gettin at least 10 months...

[eNgIeS]

It's kinda bullshit that jsut cuz you famous you only get 3 years probation for stabbin somebody.  This shit is crazy, especially since Lance Un Riviera was Biggie's close friend and Jay Z always acts like him and Biggie was tighter than shit.  Oh well, i am glad Jay is free to make music i guess...

Exactly right. I dont think its fair.

Jay Z STABBED SOMEONE. He didnt just punch them, he didnt kick them, he STABBED. Do you know how much a low life someone who delibrately stabs someone is (except in certain cases & self-defence). Jay Z stabbed him because, what, Lance bootlegged Jay Z's CD's.

I could somewhat understand if Jay Z was a young rapper with no money trying to make some money to get outta the hood, but Jay Z is already a millionaire, why the fuck should the bootlegging mean so much to Jay Z to the point he has to stab someone.

I'm not saying Lance is innocent, & he deserved something for bootlegging Jay's shit, but STABBED, no way. That is life threatening shit.

Ohh well, fuck Jigga, i just bootleg his CD's myself from now on that slimmy selfish asshole