Casanova’s authorized crew has formally filed an enchantment over the 15-year jail sentence he was handed down in late-June.
In response to 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 decreased.
“The actual fact is that Mr. Senior stayed on this gang because it furthered his rap profession,” Casanova’s attorneys mentioned. “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 obtained 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 capturing 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 is not only 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. Lawyer Damian Williams mentioned in a press launch on the time. “At a crowded Miami home occasion, Senior personally fired a gun that critically injured and will have killed a sufferer, inciting a shootout.”
He continued: “Additional, Senior’s stature locally was central to Gorilla Stone’s profitable recruitment and nationwide enlargement. At the moment’s sentencing — together with the opposite vital sentences which have been imposed on this case — reveals 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 obtained the sentence he took to to Twitter and issued a brief message, saying, “All the pieces 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 response to 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 advised the outlet on the time that: “This minor incident and whether or not weapons had been employed is underneath investigation.”
