Isaiah Lee, the Los Angeles man who allegedly charged at Dave Chappelle on stage, appeared in courtroom Friday — the place his attorneys demanded prosecutors flip over extra proof in his battery case.
Lee who appeared on Friday at a Downtown Los Angeles courtroom with a metallic chain round his waist and wrist, remained silent as Deputy Public Defender Chelsea Padilla informed Decide Armenui Ashvanian she has but to obtain all of the proof in Lee’s case.
“Your Honor, there may be nonetheless excellent discovery,” Padilla mentioned. “Mr. Lee additionally now has an extra case and we're requesting to waive time. … There are nonetheless dispatch information, name logs and a few body-worn movies.”
Lee, who was nonetheless carrying an arm brace on his proper shoulder from an harm he sustained after safety and others from Chappelle’s crew restrained him, was again in courtroom on Friday for a pretrial listening to associated to the alleged assault on Chappelle on the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Might 3.
Lee pleaded not responsible to 4 misdemeanor prices, together with battery and possessing a lethal weapon with intent to assault.
The choose granted Lee extra time within the misdemeanor case and continued the pretrial listening to to June 2.
Lee answered, “Sure, your Honor,” after the choose requested if he understood that his listening to could be trailed to a different date.
On Friday, the 23-year-old defendant was in common brown jail garb as a substitute of the blue “suicide robe” he was seen carrying throughout prior courtroom appearances on his misdemeanor case.
Lee, who raps underneath the identify “NoName_Trapper” and has penned a music known as “Dave Chappell,” can be again in courtroom on the identical date to reply to the tried homicide cost involving his former roommate.
He was additionally charged with tried homicide Thursday for an alleged knife assault on his former roommate final 12 months.
In response to prosecutors, Lee allegedly attacked and stabbed his former roommate at a transitional dwelling facility on Dec. 2.
He stays in a Los Angeles County Jail in lieu of a $1,030,000 bail.
Chappelle’s lawyer, Gabriel Colwell, informed The Publish that the comic was “upset” that Lee wasn’t hit with a felony cost for the brazen stage assault as a result of Lee had a lethal weapon– a duplicate gun with a knife– on him.
In a press release offered to The Publish, LA County District Lawyer spokesman Greg Risling mentioned Lee was not charged with a felony as a result of Lee didn't open the knife “at any time” through the Might 3 incident.
LA County District Lawyer George Gascón mentioned the publicity from the Chappelle incident helped LAPD investigators clear up the unrelated tried homicide case.
“The incident that occurred on the Hollywood Bowl was a misdemeanor conduct and rightfully referred to the Metropolis Lawyer’s Workplace,” Gascón mentioned in a press release. “Primarily based on the character and severity of the December assault, Mr.Lee is now dealing with felony prices which my workplace will prosecute.”
Critics of Gascón, nevertheless, mentioned failing to file felony prices towards Lee within the Chappelle case was a mistake.
“George (Gascón) mentioned this perpetrator didn’t intend to harm Chappelle,” Deputy District Lawyer Jonathan Hatami informed The Publish. “He mentioned the assault on Chappelle was misdemeanor conduct. Now we discover out that months earlier this identical individual tried to kill somebody with a knife. Clearly, George lacks actual life prosecutorial expertise. … And he clearly isn’t in a position to admit when he was incorrect.”
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