Oct 22 2009Lil Wayne gets year in prison for gun charges

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A day after DNA testing linked him to an illegal handgun found on his tour bus, Lil Wayne copped a plea bargain this morning and pleaded guilty to charges of attempted weapon possession. He faces a year in prison as opposed to a minimum 3 1/2 year sentence if he was found guilty of illegal gun possession charges, according to the AP:

In New York, he politely answered the judge's standard questions with "yes, Sir" and "no, Sir" as he entered his plea to second-degree attempted weapon possession, a felony.
He acknowledged he had a .40 caliber semi-automatic loaded gun on bus.
When the judge warned that he would not be able to withdraw the plea as some people try to do, the rapper said, "I'm not one of those people."
Prosecutors said small amounts of DNA found on the loaded weapon connected it to the platinum-selling artist. Defense lawyer Stacey Richman said the gun wasn't Lil Wayne's, and the testing technique was too problematic to prove otherwise.

You know, just once I'd like to see a rapper get busted for something original besides the stereotypical gun charges. I understand it's part of their record contract to do time, but would it hurt to spice things up a bit? Maybe ride a tiger to Starbucks. Or, shit, fire white babies out of a cannon, I don't care. Just show me some zazz!

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Geeze, Wheezy.

Yaaaaaa...OKKK

Hmmm, I guess Hip-hop has been saved by a federal judge. Nice one.

Worst rapper alive. He should have gotten life so I don't have to hear his incoherent rhymes.

You know whats absolutely fucked up? Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and god knows whatever other rich bitches in Hollywood, get minutes or hours in jail for DUI or DWI and this guy gets a year just for HAVING a gun. He didnt fire it, it was just there. Call me crazy but i think a car with a drunk behind the wheel is more dangerous than a loaded gun just sitting there.

[DELETED FOR BEING A RACIST FUCKTARD]

#2 thats Lil Jon you turd.

They will love this sweet poser in jail. Hes gay everyone knows that from the what 150+ pictures of him making out with baby all the time so he will fit right in.

He looks like one of the aliens from They Live

Um dude its in a state with a no handgun period law. Then the gets caught with a handgun. Education is a cool thing, helps you understand whats going on. I recommend you get some more of it.

Another positive attempt to perpetuate the ghetto-boy stereotytpe. You go wif your bad-ass self.

#5 -- love your post... very true.

#6 -- you're an ignorant asshole. why is he a typical nigger? for having a gun? he is actually intelligent and talented. and at least he sounded respectful and honest in court. not so "typical" for a nigger, huh?

Lil waynes fav vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPPvGcquNsw&feature=youtube_gdata

I always thought it was funny (in a sad way) that he misspelled Little in his name.

One less stupid moron no longer able to influence our nation's kids. Unfortunately, these pieces of shit are like the Hydra; take one down and two more pop up.

how is he a typical n----- #6 all black people dont carry guns and u sound like a n----- i wonder if u even know what that means

He deserves a year in jail just for wearing that ridiculous hood rat getup.

A year, Pffff

They should cane his fucking ass until he looks like the meat in the Taco Bell commercials. Let's see how many more "thugs" keep packing

Flava Flave? Is that you?

He went from Sitting in a jet to sitting in a cell. From Shitting in a jet to Shitting in a cell. ha haa! Million dollar song. Im BLOWIN' UP!! KOBE

He went from Sitting in a jet to sitting in a cell. From Shitting in a jet to Shitting in a cell. ha haa! Million dollar song. Im BLOWIN' UP!! KOBE

Fuck that! This country sucks ass, we should all be entitled to forty cal semi autos.

At least he admitted his mistakes and pleaded guilty.

#23, Rose, he admitted his mistakes and plead guilty because the prosecutor offered him a deal to plead guilty and do a year vs. the 3.5 years he would have gotten had he been convicted at trial. The evidence must have been overwhelming to make him change from his non-guilty plea.

Typical Jew.

He's "got the hardest bars, just call him the warden."

Call me stupid but if YOU are such a rich aka (BALLER) why in the world would you not hire a body guard that can carry a gun. This the second time this year you see person that can afford to get a body guard that can carry gun take measures in there own hands. They always fail when the do.... THen in state like NEW york that does not play with weapon charges. I personally think LIL wayne can use a little time out. Get is life back to normal he does way to many drugs. Plus he looking at more charges in Arizona.

This is the best news ever.
This means I won't hear any of this losers horrible music for 12 months.
He should have been arrested a long time ago for making such horrible tunes like "Lolipop".

Good luck in the can L.W. I bet some hard hitten brotha is gonna make your ass go "Burp, Burp". Hahaha! That's funny!

Yes, #18 . . . someone who finally agrees with me! We can elevate over-crowding in jails, the wasting of taxpayer's $ on people who will never get rehabilitated - with just a couple of wacks (4 maximum because after that you can't feel it anymore!). And no, I don't believe in spanking children - just criminals who hold honest citizens and the nation's laws in contempt!!!

He'z hot I would let him lick me all night! A zhame the Bruthuz have to pay for zmall zhit and white people get by with murder more or lezz.

New York law sucks. A year in jail for the non-crime of not having a permission slip from his overlords to possess his own property? Yikes! The belligerent and coercive State is the only problem in this situation. #18 You're drunk.

little bend over.

wtf is attempted weapon possession?

@12 you should proof read what you type before posting.

Look we all know you are pretty stupid but damn typing shit out like a retard is never going to get anywhere. Thanks for the laughs chickenhead.

Look we all know you are pretty stupid but damn typing shit out like a retard is never going to get anywhere. Thanks for the laughs chickenhead.

I wonder if he knows what the Kings are...

how does this retard only get a year in jail for carrying a gun, but plaxico burress gets 3 years of sitting i prison. so much for the zero tolerance law for guns.

does anyone see any injustice to this

Okay, sooo I don't think I've ever been angrier than when I just read all you shit heads talk about the most talentedest nigga ever/my favorite person ever/WEEZY F. I'm in fucking honors college as an English major and I'm definitely wiser than all you fucks. I guarantee all of you (cept for like the two fucking smart people on here that weren't being douches) haven't even fucking listened to a full Lil Wayne song, and if you have, you don't know what the fuck he's saying because you're a stupid piece of shit. I'm Irish as fuck and I know what this dood's saying because I'm not a tard or an ignorant fuck. Fucking take a look at your dumbass selves! The irony's retarded hilarious. You sit in front of your computer with your Mountain Dew looking at pictures of foxy celebrities. Then, you see Lil Wayne up here and have to call him a nigger, untalented, and all this stupid shit that doesn't even make sense, just to make yourself feel special because, as it's pretty damn obvious, no one else will. Don't you just feel sooo accomplished now? Leaving a hateful comment that's worth nothing and serves no real practical purpose? I bet you do!


Oh, and also, hope you lame-asses have awesome lives not smoking weed. You're too fucking dumb for it anyways, it's probably for the best.

his @ss is gonna take a beating in jail from the sisters i hope, why does he need a gun if hes got private security goons to do that stuff for him?

Looks like Lil Wayne is going to be doin' a lil' time. Hope he meets some nice friendly dudes in there that want to get rrrrreal close to him... Idiot...

See, you guys are ignorant as fuck! Wayne's not gonna get a finger laid on him in the pen. When I said he was the talentedest nigga ever, I was for real. If anyone touches him they'd be mega fucked. He's the biggest artist on the fucking planet now you tards. Oh, you wouldn't know from your subdivisions.

Zesty, the way you are talking and carrying on, it sounds like you want to be the one fucking him.......da Turd is over and da out....goodnight

#38

Honors college is for retards. English is a failure of a major. Be prepared for your job working at the DMV, you whiny little undergrad. Wayne has blown out the FF button in my car since he started jumping on tracks with Drake. Dude is awful. Worst fucking rapper ever.

No homo.
Nice name.

Psyche.

@43

What do you even do? You're looking at comments on www.thesuperficial.com in your spare time! I just saw this shit about Wayne and wanted to see what people had to say about it and it only ended up infuriating me. I was expecting to see people backing him up, like they usually do, and maybe giving helpful information. Instead I found like 30 of the same exact comment, a comment that doesn't even make sense:
"Duuuuuhhhhh I can't stand the sound of Wayne's voice, fuck this shit. He sounds like too much like a black person and I can't understand his nonsensical jive. He's not a good rapper. In fact, what he really is, is an ignorant n*gger."

Good arguments, internet scrubs. I like them because they reflect America on a whole.

Had to comment...what the hell does "attempted weapon possession" mean? Is that kind of like attempted orgasm, or attempted diarrhea after eating a shitload (no pun intended, really) of chili beans? 'splain plz.

Ahh who cares, the real rappers are dead, retired, or doing local bars...

Had to comment...what the hell does "attempted weapon possession" mean? Is that like an attempted orgasm, or attempted diarrhea after eating a shitload (no pun intended, really) of chili beans? 'splain plz... my legalese isn't very good.

fag.

he sings in that awful gay voice too.

fag.

Who cares? He's a no-talent piece of shit that looks like Whoopi Goldberg

Wow, there are some pretty hypocritical people commenting on here, someone needs to argue from a better stand point.

OH and just for the record, smoking weed is a terrible choice. I am not "fucking dumb" for making this decision. #38

I enjoy his music, but to be honest, you get what you get.

Who cares. He won't do the full year and you all know it.

You hear these guys always carrying guns, how come we never hear news about them actually using them?

I thought it was legal to own a gun. Isn't this America?

"I'm not one of those people."

Whatever. He was a fugitive from drug possession charges in Georgia for over a year until cops caught up with him in 2007.

I can't hardly believe the muleshit I'm readin' here...Y'all oughta be ashamed of yourselfs and not use the N-word so fuckin' much. Folks're gonna start thinking y'all are anti-nigger!

"Maybe ride a tiger to Starbucks. Or, shit, fire white babies out of a cannon, I don't care. Just show me some zazz!"

lol you crack me up.

Lil' Wayne

There once was a rapper named Wayne
Went to prison to stay in the game
His career will stay strong
Like the rhymes in his songs
But his anus just won't be the same

I swear, Lil Waynes mum must have been impregnated by a Gremlin. He is a strange hybrid. Do a comparison with pictures.

three cheers for draconian gun laws. mayor bloomberg must be proud of himself. I simply dont understand how a dictator can remain in power for so long. While Wheezy should have been more cognizant of Mayor Bloomberg's gun laws, criminalizing simple possession outside of the home AND criminalizing magazine capacity, which is NYC's and the State of New York's definition of illegal handgun are draconian at best. Sadly, the Equal Protection Clause doesn't apply. A sentence equal to that of Plaxico would have been more justified.

Listen, I think Lil Wayne is a tool and everything, but after what Lindsay Lohan pulled, this guy was treated unfairly.

What a miscarriage of justice. You've got to be kidding me. Who would ever think a guy with all those tats on his face and needs to be in prison? I blame whitey.

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Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to attempted possession of a weapon in the second degree this morning in a New York courtroom; the plea bargain carries a sentence of up to a year in prison. Wayne had previously pleaded not guilty to the charges, which were filed after the NYPD found a .40 caliber handgun on Wayne’s tour bus in July 2007.

#10 thats completely beside the point. Whether handguns are outlawed in that state or not, someone thats drunk behind the wheel of a car is more dangerous than a guy with a gun in his pants. Handguns might be against the law in a certain state, but driving under the influence is against the law everywhere.

@38
lol ur dumb

@Zesty: You make white people look bad. Please refrain from using the N-word. Whether you spell it with an "er" or an "a" it's an insult and demeaning. I highly doubt you are an English major with your absolutely horrible English and your judicious use of profanity. Unless you are "majoring" in English at your middle school. I get it, if you could, you would totally blow Lil Wayne and you are upset that others don't feel the same way. Take it down a notch. Would you show these comments that you have written to your professor? Of course not. Remember this, “When a man uses profanity to support an argument, it indicates that either the man or the argument is weak - probably both”.

I bet Lil Wayne is pissed he doesn't have room left for REAL jailhouse tattoos. PC for two months and time served.

stop spelling Weezy with an "H" like Wheezy. He's not having a fucking asthma attack for Christ's sake.
Just saying.

What I find amusing is the racial lectures by everyone under a story about a guy who probably uses the "N" word a dozen times a day...wait make that a minute.

Not to mention the entire industry is full of people who use that word on a regular basis.

Oh yeah, I remember. When black people use the word we call it black pride or something. When white people use the word it takes on a racial connotation. Personally I can go the rest of my life without hearing it ever again.

But when it becomes a word used as a friendly greeting, to print money, and for all around good fun I find it difficult to care who's saying it really.

All this added to his 3 baby mamas all due to give birth in the same year. What a life!!!

#5 and # 12. You both aren't very good at reading or understanding law are you? Let's see the little rich bitches you talked about didn't get charged with a felony!! This is why they got less time in jail. You forgot to mention your boy though, you know the one that was drinking and driving and killed someone and only got 30 days in jail. Tell me, how long was charles barkley bruce smith in jail for their dwi's?

#5 and # 12. You both aren't very good at reading or understanding law are you? Let's see the little rich bitches you talked about didn't get charged with a felony!! This is why they got less time in jail. You forgot to mention your boy though, you know the one that was drinking and driving and killed someone and only got 30 days in jail. Tell me, how long was charles barkley bruce smith in jail for their dwi's?

So how did they fit the Auto-tune machine into the courthouse? I mean, no way he spoke in public without it.

I totally am an English major. Buuut, I'm also a drug dealer and an angry southside Irish kid from Chicago; it's just how I talk. Annnd I'm on the internet.

Is it that hard to get a gun license if you'd like to play with guns?!

I don't understand this. Alright, so DNA testing has apparently established that he had handled the gun. Is it because it was his bus or something? Surely he didn't personally own the bus.

Testing was too problimatic... yeah, those damn serial numbers are just too confusing for us cop folks to understand... Highlander's newspaper saleman got it right, cops can't read.

Your ass ).(

Your ass in prison )o(

Just hope he gets the change he voted for.

hire security

If you've ever heard him speak about his life and who he is and what he's done, he's a pretty amazing guy. In his world he's got to feel like he's got a target on his back, it's a violent subculture, he's right in the middle of it too. I couldn't be farther from his world and yet he's a fascinating person, who has managed to actually make and keep the money he made by being talented, smart and working hard. Oh, and staying alive.

And I agree with the person who pointed out that all these famous hollywood tards get to drive impaired in a lethal weapon, and do less than an hour in jail. They are every bit as dangerous to innocent people out in the world as someone with a loaded gun. Lil Wayne's was obviously armed for defense not offense, it's not like he was going to do a take over robbery of an AM/PM gas station on a saturday night.

@38. Wow! You have a great imagination, especially for creating new words such as "talentedest."

I always thought it was just, "most talented." I guess I'm just an ignorant fool who cannot comprehend the English language and i must have some awful taste in music since I'm not a fan of Lil Wayne!

I bet you have a full scholarship as an English major!!

Too bad "I'm the most talentedest nigga ever" is a quote I pulled from Lil Wayne himself in a Rolling Stone issue. I wish I had his imagination.

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@ #84

uh... this is prime example of how today's youth talks/spells. horrible and discerning.

I saw him on MTV.. very motivational...

hahahahahahahahahaah. woooooooooww oka, first of all, lil wayne is very far from being a poser. Please just leave him alone. If it was really his DNA on the gun then thats his problem. You seriously dont have to be all rude about it cause your just all haters. Honestly, in my opinion i dont think that was his DNA. Just cause hes a rapper doesnt make him any different than the rest if us, so seriously just stop hatinn on him and leave him alone. let weezy deal with his own business that we dont need your rude comments on. Thankyou for your time. :}

hahahahahahahahahaah. woooooooooww oka, first of all, lil wayne is very far from being a poser. Please just leave him alone. If it was really his DNA on the gun then thats his problem. You seriously dont have to be all rude about it cause your just all haters. Honestly, in my opinion i dont think that was his DNA. Just cause hes a rapper doesnt make him any different than the rest if us, so seriously just stop hatinn on him and leave him alone. let weezy deal with his own business that we dont need your rude comments on. Thankyou for your time. :}

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This website is racist and I am reporting you. You took my comment down but you keep all of these racial attacks at black people up here. This site is coming DOWN!!!!

lil wayne is the best rapper ever y do u people hate him wots he ever done 2 u
at least he aint like other people he tells the truth in court if he does get a year its his misstakes he will learn from them
u people hate him coz u aint him i bet all the people he slag him off r fat ugly twats he aint got a life so the people who slag him off go kill urslefs 2 make this world a better place

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