B.G. could also be leaving the California jail the place he’s presently serving out the remaining few months of a 14-year sentence sooner than anticipated.
Reports have surfaced on-line that, throughout a current IG Live session, Birdman introduced that his Cash Money Records protégé is ready to be launched in a couple of weeks. That would imply B.G. (actual title Christopher Dorsey) could possibly be a free man a few yr sooner than his final reported projected launch date of April 7, 2024.
HipHopDX has reached out to representatives for B.G. to verify the up to date launch date.
In late September, U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan rejected a movement submitted by one other federal prisoner, requesting to have the Hot Boy rapper’s 14-year sentence commuted.
Titled “The Court Misconstrued Defendant’s Motion,” the September request argued {that a} letter submitted to the courts in 2021 wasn’t supposed to be a authorized movement, however fairly an try to boost consciousness about B.G.’s displeasure with how his lawyer had dealt with a earlier compassionate launch movement.
The letter inspired the court docket to rethink him for a compassionate launch and requested for the 2021 denial to not be held towards him. In her choice, issued three days after the 2022 movement was submitted, Judge Morgan acknowledged that the rapper “has offered no new evidence that would affect the Court’s prior decision.”
Morgan had beforehand denied a movement submitted by B.G. in June, which was supported by letters from Birdman, Slim, Wendy Day and Gary Payton, Sr., amongst others.
B.G.’s first request for an early launch this yr got here in February, after all the Bureau of Prisons system went into lockdown on account of violence in USP Beaumont. At the time, he wrote that “murder and mayhem” had been regular occurrences in federal facility the place he was being held and that the general public had no thought what was actually occurring behind jail partitions.
He additionally claimed his well being points make him extra prone to COVID-19, chiding his earlier lawyer for “incompetence” and refuted prosecutors’ makes an attempt to “paint him as a violent individual due to his rap lyrics, adding that the only thing he’s ever killed was a microphone.”
However, Morgan defined she did “not find any gross neglect that affected the outcome of Dorsey’s second motion for compassionate release,” which means he’ll have to finish his sentence.
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B.G.’s authentic 14-year sentence was handed down in July 2012 after the rapper pleaded responsible to being a felon in possession of a firearm, and obstructed justice by convincing an affiliate to say possession of the gun.
Following the sentencing, B.G. launched assertion through which he indicated that he was approaching his time in jail with a optimistic mindset.
“I am relieved I found out what my fate was yesterday because I was facing 30 years and my case kept getting pushed back,” the assertion learn. “I am just ready to get my sentence started because it’s not RIP BG it’s FREE BG. I feel happy and blessed that I will still be a young man and still be able to see daylight because I am someone, a dad, a brother and a son.”
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