{"id":9469,"date":"2026-01-10T17:59:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/no-prison-for-rapper-on-gun-charge\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T17:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:59:41","slug":"no-prison-for-rapper-on-gun-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/no-prison-for-rapper-on-gun-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"No Prison for Rapper on Gun Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tRapper Boosie Badazz was sentenced on Friday (Jan. 9) to no prison time following his guilty plea on gun possession charges.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt a court hearing in San Diego federal court, Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo sentenced Boosie (Torence Hatch) to time served, plus three years of supervised release and a $50,000 fine, for illegally owning a gun after earlier felony convictions.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe light sentence comes after Boosie struck a plea deal with prosecutors in August after he said he was \u201ctired of fighting.\u201d But even under the terms of that deal, the feds had recommended a stiffer sentence of two years in prison.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m blessed not to be in prison right now,\u201d Boosie said in a video statement released after the hearing, adding that he planned to accelerate touring and artistic projects that had been stalled during the case. \u201cI\u2019m just grateful right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBoosie was first charged in June 2023 with being a felon in possession of a firearm \u2014 meaning he violated a federal law that prohibits people with felony convictions from owning guns. The rapper had previously been convicted of drug charges in 2011, along with numerous other earlier convictions.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe details of Boosie\u2019s arrest were unusual. Local authorities spotted a handgun tucked in his waistband while monitoring the Instagram feed of a \u201cknown gang member\u201d in San Diego \u2014 then used a helicopter to track him in real-time in an allegedly gang-associated neighborhood. After a traffic stop, he was found with a matching Glock pistol in the vehicle.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFollowing years of procedural ups-and-downs, the case against Boosie was scheduled for a trial last summer. But in August, the rapper said he would accept a plea deal to \u201cget on with my life.\u201d The feds later revealed that they had promised a two-year sentence in return for the guilty plea. Last week, they formalized that request to the judge, citing the rapper\u2019s \u201cdifficult upbringing which likely contributed to his current predicament.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the lead-up to sentencing, Boosie\u2019s lawyers asked for less: No prison time at all and just two years of probation. The possession of the gun was a \u201cserious but isolated lapse in judgment\u201d and rather than any kind of \u201congoing criminal behavior,\u201d they said, and it had had no victims: \u201cMr. Hatch did not discharge a firearm or cause harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his statement following the hearing, Boosie suggested that he would seek even further to clear his name by seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump \u2014 an outcome he has already hired lobbyists to seek: \u201cPraying for a pardon now, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n


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