The Atlanta hip hop artist, TI, waived his rights to a trial and entered a plea agreement on three counts of federal firearm charges.
TI pays a fine of 100,000 dollars, spends three years under supervised release, including a year of home detention, must perform a 1,500 hours of community service followed by a year in federal prison on related federal firearm charges.
By Ben Thompson
Mar 27, 2008 22:15 PM GMT
Under the terms of the deal, Rapper TI pays a fine of 100,000 dollars, spend three years under supervised release, including a year of home detention, must perform a 1,500 hours of community service followed by a year in federal prison on related federal firearm charges. The Grammy Award-winning rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris, Jr., would face up to 10 years in prison for each count if the case went to trial. Harris was already a convicted felon before last October's arrest for trying to illegally buy machine guns.
"With the upmost respect and sincerity, I'm grateful that the court and the government has given me the chance to, as a part of my sentence, to help kids live safe, be productive and avoid making the same mistakes I've made," Harris said."He has an opportunity to potentially prevent some people from committing crimes and in our mind that's a reasonable reason to reduce his sentence," US Attorney David Nahmias said. If the rapper doesn't hold up his end of the plea bargain, he will receive a much longer sentence, Nahmias said. Sentencing will be delayed until March 2009. In the meantime, he must serve at least 1,000 hours of his 1,500 hour community service. TI won two Grammys last year. He starred in the 2006 film "ATL" and appeared with Denzel Washington in the 2007 movie "American Gangster."
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