Rapper Gets 8 Years In Prison

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Remy Ma’s http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=993 for the Grammy-nominated rapper: eight years in prison for shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub.

The state Supreme Court sentence was handed Tuesday to the 26-year-old rapper, whose real name is Reminisce Smith, for assault, weapon possession and attempted coercion.

The defendant, who could have faced up to 25 years in prison, was teary-eyed as she heard the sentence. She says the shooting last summer was an accident; an appeal is planned.  

After the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=332 Papoose, began screaming in a hallway outside the courtroom. “All you want is money!” he said, apparently referring to the victim.”Lock me up! Lock me up!” he then shouted to court officers, who instead escorted him to an elevator and out of the courthouse.

The http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2792, Makeda Barnes Joseph, was in the courtroom for the sentencing. She did not appear to be in the hallway when the outburst occurred.

Correction officials say they called off the couple’s weekend wedding at the Rikers Island jail after Papoose showed up with a handcuff key.

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2008-05-13