Cassidy Denied Bail, Booked Into Medium-Security Prison

[Stone Cold is Bout It, Bout It]

After surrendering to authorities in Philadelphia on Friday, where he was wanted for murder, Cassidy spent the weekend in a medium-security prison, where it's expected he'll remain for the foreseeable future.

The rapper was denied bail — as is the case with all defendants accused of murder in Pennsylvania — at his arraignment on Saturday, where he was officially charged with one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated assault and various weapons offenses (see "Cassidy Turns Himself In On Murder, Weapons Charges"). Cassidy (real name Barry Reese) did not enter a plea during his arraignment, and he won't be asked to until his case is brought to trial — which could be several months from now.

A spokesperson for the district attorney's office said it's likely Cassidy's detainment at Philadelphia's Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility will continue until, and throughout, his trial.

Like all new inmates at the facility, Cassidy underwent an admissions and diagnostics process that includes classification; orientation; medical examination; issuance of an inmate handbook, clothing and personal care items; and a social-service assessment.

At a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, it's expected that prosecutors will present any evidence they've collected against Cassidy to a judge, who will then rule on whether the state has enough to hold the rapper for trial; the prosecution could even call medical examiners and eyewitnesses in to provide pretrial testimony.

Police claim Cassidy and two other men, armed with .45 and .40 caliber handguns, 9 mm pistols, AK-47 assault rifles and 7.62 mm rifles, fired on three unarmed men during an argument behind a house in the rapper's northwest Philadelphia neighborhood, killing one of them — 22-year-old Desmond Hawkins. The other two victims were treated at a hospital for gunshot wounds and released.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of one of the other alleged shooters. The identity of the third gunmen is not known.

Cassidy's second album, I'm a Hustla, is due June 28.

— Chris Harris

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1504372/06202005/cassidy.jhtml?headlines=true#Scene_1

[smoke1ne]

sad but thas what mothafuckas get

[Just Another Sunny day in California]

deng that's crazy, denied bail???

[youngmessnucca]

damn sucks to be cass......ive never even heard of a 7.62 mm rifle....ne one got a flick?

[Sikotic™]

I still say its a publicity stunt 

[GangstaBoogy]

I still say its a publicity stunt 

chup. if this album goes platinum within the first 3 weeks of sales, watch all the charges get suddenly dropped

[[sepehr]]

I still say its a publicity stunt 

Co-sign, coincidentally this is all happening a week before his album comes out

[Jip]

someones gonna get raped 

[ABN]

someones gonna get raped 

maybe he and Yayo should from a group togheter "The Raped"

[CRAFTY]

I still say its a publicity stunt 

That's what I'm thinking too, but then again...going to a Medium-Security Prison just to get some publicity is a little far fetched, don't you think?

[ABN]

of course it´s not a publicity stunt. do y´all think a man would play around with something like this when it can mean that he´ll have to spend the rest of his life in prison? what´s next? one of y´all makin a thread sayin that C-Murder and MAC aren´t locked up and that they are just sayin that they are locked up as a publicity stunt?

[Kal EL]

Naw this shit is real. But to deny a person the right to bail sounds a bit against a person's due process rights and all.I know that its the Penn. State law and all but still... Any one pre law on here?

[KURUPTION-81]

I still say its a publicity stunt 

i thought that but i wouldnt go to jail to sell a few extra albums

[Đřšďĺ]

I still say its a publicity stunt 

i thought that but i wouldnt go to jail to sell a few extra albums

[Sikotic™]

I still say its a publicity stunt 

i thought that but i wouldnt go to jail to sell a few extra albums

Maybe he owes the mob money

more publicity=more slaes=more money=the mob off his back

I got this shit down like a science