| In SDNY Tekashi 6ix9ine Case
Fuguan Lovick Get 85 Months and A Barclays
Center Joke
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Thread Scope
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 12 – Daniel Hernandez
a/k/a Tekashi 6ix9ine was
sentenced to 24 months of
total imprisonment on December
18 in a proceeding live
tweeted by Inner City
Press before U.S. District
Court Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer.
On
February 12 one of his initial
co-defendants Fuguan Lovick
a/k/a Fu Banga entered in
shackles for sentencing by
Judge Engelmayer. Inner City
Press aimed to at least
partially live tweet, but it
was not possible: no phone use
in courtroom and for various
reasons not otherwise
possible. The government was
asking for a sentence of from
90 to 96 months in jail, 84 of
them for pleading guilty to
shooting a gun at the
Barclay's Center in downtown
Brooklyn. Lovick declined to
speak (he had written a
letter); his lawyer Jeffrey
Pittel asked for one day on
Count 6.
Judge Engelmayer noted that
while Lovick had a number of
run ins with the law since
1999, none in the past seven
years, and jobs in Home Depot
and construction. His father
made him sell heroin; he
witnessed a murder on the way
to school.
As to the
shot, Judge Engelmayer said
that Daniel Hernandez was to
give a performance and Lovick
shot a gun over the heads of a
rival rapper's entourage.
Judge
Engelmayer: "I should say that
many shots taken in the
Barclays Center miss" - then
he credited Lovick with
missing his gun shot on
purpose, but still said it was
dangerous. He imposed a
sentence of 85 months, then
three years of Supervised
Release, in Connecticut where
Lovick's son lives. He wished
Lovick, and two relatives in
the gallery, well. And Inner
City Press, prohibited from
live tweeting the thoughtful
sentencing, ran and wrote
this. We'll have more,
including on April 1.
Inner City Press
covered the trial
Hernandez testified at, and
the other sentencings
in the case and will continue
to. The case is US v.
Jones, 18-cr-834
(Engelmayer). More on Patreon
here.
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