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New York rapper Bobby Shmurda reportedly appeared in court this week for his 2014 weapons case and had a new bail hearing requested.
According to reports, the appearance went down Monday (January 11) in New York City.
During the hearing, Pollard’s lawyer Alex Spiro, of the law firm Branfman & Associates, requested a new bail hearing, which Judge James Burke set for Tuesday, January 19. Spiro also pressed for the complete file of incident reports regarding every one of Pollard’s stops and arrests, as well as background files on the officers involved, to be put into discovery. “Absence of evidence [recovered during these stops] is evidence,” he explained, further alleging that the officers involved in the “seminal” moment of Pollard’s case have “burdensome files” that may include Fourth Amendment violations, false arrests, and more. (The FADER)
Buzz about Shmurda possibly being released on bail surfaced in early December.
Bobby Shmurda finally has a slight glimmer of hope — his legal team has a plan to spring the rapper from jail as early as Thursday. Sources close to the case tell TMZ … Shmurda’s family has stepped forward to offer up collateral for his $2 million bond. Most notably, Bobby’s aunt has put several properties on the line to help set the rapper free. We’re told the family has been working closely with NY bondsman Ira Judelson. (TMZ)
Back in October, Shmurda called into New York radio station Hot 97 to clear the air on various rumors.
“I’m hearing wild rumors going on. I’m hearing a lot of rumors and stuff,” Shmurda said. “I don’t have ten percent of my bail. I got collateral. I have the whole full security. They want a hundred percent. They don’t want twenty-five percent, they don’t want forty percent, they don’t want fifty, they want the whole collateral. They want the whole two million dollars – we have the whole ten percent, they want the collateral. … I ain’t get in contact with [Epic Records] in a long time.” (Hot 97)
A few weeks prior, music mogul Dame Dash gave his opinion on Epic Records and CEO L.A. Reid not bailing out Shmurda.
“You gotta understand something, L.A. Reid works for Epic,” Dame explained. “Number one, Epic is owned by Sony. Sony is a Japanese company that uses British people to run American people. So, L.A. Reid would probably have to go and ask, I don’t know if it’s still Rob Stringer, but whoever it is that runs Sony, his umbrella company who is British, who then has to ask someone that’s Japanese. And I don’t think someone Japanese gives a f*ck about somebody black through a British, a L.A. Reid, down to the hood, to give more money. And they may have not recouped their money yet.” (“Boyce Watkins”)
They not tryna let those boys home
They not tryna let those boys home