B.G. could also be leaving the California jail the place he’s at present serving out the remaining few months of a 14-year sentence sooner than anticipated.
Experiences have surfaced on-line that, throughout a current IG Stay session, Birdman introduced that his Money Cash Information protégé is about to be launched in just a few weeks. That will imply B.G. (actual identify Christopher Dorsey) might be a free man a couple of yr sooner than his final reported projected launch date of April 7, 2024.
HipHopDX has reached out to representatives for B.G. to substantiate the up to date launch date.
In late September, U.S. District Choose Susie Morgan rejected a movement submitted by one other federal prisoner, requesting to have the Scorching Boy rapper’s 14-year sentence commuted.
Titled “The Courtroom Misconstrued Defendant’s Movement,” the September request argued {that a} letter submitted to the courts in 2021 wasn’t supposed to be a authorized movement, however moderately an try to lift consciousness about B.G.’s displeasure with how his legal professional had dealt with a earlier compassionate launch movement.
The letter inspired the courtroom to rethink him for a compassionate launch and requested for the 2021 denial to not be held in opposition to him. In her choice, issued three days after the 2022 movement was submitted, Choose Morgan said that the rapper “has provided no new proof that will have an effect on the Courtroom’s prior choice.”
Morgan had beforehand denied a movement submitted by B.G. in June, which was supported by letters from Birdman, Slim, Wendy Day and Gary Payton, Sr., amongst others.
B.G.’s first request for an early launch this yr got here in February, after the complete Bureau of Prisons system went into lockdown resulting from violence in USP Beaumont. On the time, he wrote that “homicide and mayhem” have been regular occurrences in federal facility the place he was being held and that the general public had no thought what was actually occurring behind jail partitions.
He additionally claimed his well being points make him extra inclined to COVID-19, chiding his earlier legal professional for “incompetence” and refuted prosecutors’ makes an attempt to “paint him as a violent particular person resulting from his rap lyrics, including that the one factor he’s ever killed was a microphone.”
Nonetheless, Morgan defined she did “not discover any gross neglect that affected the end result of Dorsey’s second movement for compassionate launch,” that means he’ll have to finish his sentence.
B.G.’s authentic 14-year sentence was handed down in July 2012 after the rapper pleaded responsible to being a felon in possession of a firearm, and obstructed justice by convincing an affiliate to assert possession of the gun.
Following the sentencing, B.G. launched assertion wherein he indicated that he was approaching his time in jail with a optimistic mindset.
“I’m relieved I discovered what my destiny was yesterday as a result of I used to be going through 30 years and my case stored getting pushed again,” the assertion learn. “I’m simply able to get my sentence began as a result of it’s not RIP BG it’s FREE BG. I really feel comfortable and blessed that I’ll nonetheless be a younger man and nonetheless be capable to see daylight as a result of I’m somebody, a dad, a brother and a son.”