Casanova’s authorized group has formally filed an enchantment over the 15-year jail sentence he was handed down in late-June.
In line with HotNewHipHop, Casanova’s lawyer James Kousouros talked about that as a result of the Brooklyn rapper (actual title Caswell Senior) denounced his formal ties to the Gorilla Stone Nation gang, his sentence ought to be diminished.
“The actual fact is that Mr. Senior stayed on this gang because it furthered his rap profession,” Casanova’s attorneys stated. “As he gained reasonable success after which a recording contract with Roc Nation, he more and more separated himself from the gang’s actions regardless of remaining a member.”
Casanova acquired 188 months or 15 years behind bars on June 27 from U.S. District Decide Philip M. Halpern. Included within the crimes he’s accused of are a taking pictures in Florida on July 5, 2020, a theft in New York Metropolis on August 5, 2018 and conspiracy to site visitors over 100 kilograms of marijuana.
“Caswell Senior isn’t just a infamous recording artist, however he’s additionally a high-profile chief of a vicious avenue gang and a magnet for gang violence,” U.S. Legal professional Damian Williams stated in a press launch on the time. “At a crowded Miami home social gathering, Senior personally fired a gun that significantly injured and will have killed a sufferer, inciting a shootout.”
He continued: “Additional, Senior’s stature in the neighborhood was central to Gorilla Stone’s profitable recruitment and nationwide growth. As we speak’s sentencing — together with the opposite important sentences which were imposed on this case — exhibits as soon as once more that gang life isn’t price it and can result in a few years in jail.”
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Casanova was the twelfth defendant within the Gorilla Stone case to have been sentenced. 5 extra defendants have pled responsible and are awaiting sentencing.
After he acquired the sentence he took to to Twitter and issued a brief message, saying, “Every thing to the chin, Nothing to the guts. I GET IT NOW. I hope that don’t go over ya heads.”
Previous to his sentencing, Cas was assaulted in a bloody jail altercation that befell at Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark, New Jersey in early June.
In line with NBC New York, Casanova was slashed within the face with an unknown weapon by one other inmate on Thursday which resulted in him together with different inmates chasing him down.
Anthony Puglisi, who’s a spokesperson for Essex County Correctional Facility instructed the outlet on the time that: “This minor incident and whether or not weapons had been employed is beneath investigation.”
