The protection layer for one of many males accused of being concerned within the homicide of XXXTentacion is hellbent on getting Drake to be questioned about his doable involvement within the crime. The lawyer just lately filed a brand new movement in an try to have Drizzy deposed wherein he introduced up claims from the method server who alleges the rapper’s safety kicked the subpoena down the driveway as a substitute of accepting it.
On Friday (Feb. 17), Dedrick Williams’ protection lawyer Mauricio Padilla filed a movement to resume his petition to make Drake sit for a deposition in regards to the case. In the submitting, Padilla laid out the setbacks he is been having to correctly serve Drake with a subpoena, together with the rap mega star’s safety kicking the subpoena when it was dropped at the rapper’s door.
“On February 14, 2023, a domesticated California subpoena was taken by process servers to Mr. Graham’s residence, where the prior subpoena was accepted on the previous service,” the court docket submitting reads. “The process server was greeted with armed guards who refused to accept the service. The guards closed the colossal gate in the process server’s face.”
The movement continues, “After having the gate shut in his face, the process server posted the subpoena, only to have Mr. Graham’s staff literally kick the subpoena down the long driveway that leads to the Beverly Crest mansion, Drake’s Beverly Hills residence. Security is heard saying ‘no one is being served here.’ Apparently, Drake’s security staff believes that physically kicking the subpoena is a legally sound way of refusing service.”
In court docket papers, the method sever additionally gave an in depth back-and-forth of he and his companions’ dialog with Drake’s safety wherein they refused to just accept the subpoena.
XXL has reached out to Drake’s staff for remark.
Padilla has been attempting unsuccessfully to get Drake in for questioning for weeks, as he tries to persuade the jury that XXXTentacion’s beef with Drake or probably different rappers is what led to XXX’s dying and never the 4 males who’re accused of robbing and killing the South Florida rapper exterior RIVA Motorsports in Deerfield Beach, Fla. on June 18, 2018.
Last week, one among Drake’s legal professionals appeared in court docket to argue towards Drake having to come back in for a deposition, citing that the protection’s paperwork was not correctly filed and doing so being fruitless. Multiple witnesses have been requested if there’s any Drake connection to XXXTentacion’s killing, with a cooperating codefendant and a codefendant’s former girlfriend testifying they don’t have any data of Drake being related to X’s homicide.
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