Rapper Kidd Creole — a founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Livid 5 — was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years behind bars for the stabbing demise of a homeless man throughout a dispute in Manhattan.
The 62-year-old hip-hop pioneer, whose actual title is Nathaniel Glover, was discovered responsible of manslaughter in April for the 2017 for killing John Jolly, a 55-year-old vagrant.
“A life is a life, whether or not the individual is homeless, whether or not the individual is a CEO,” Manhattan Supreme Courtroom Justice Michele Rodney stated on the sentencing. “Inside seconds … Mr. Jolly’s life was modified eternally.”
She stated the protection’s argument that Glover had acted in self-defense as a result of Jolly was a intercourse offender fell flat.
“You didn’t know him,” she advised Glover. “You didn’t know that he had a [history of] violence or was a sexual offender. These issues weren't recognized and don’t have a lot relevance when it comes to anyone’s motion on this case.”
The Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer — whose band churned out chart-topping tunes comparable to “Freedom” and “The Message” within the early Nineteen Eighties — had confronted as much as 25 years in jail.
Sporting a grey swimsuit along with his hair pulled right into a ponytail, Glover appeared stoic as Rodney handed down the sentencing. He claimed he’d been wrongly solid as a killer.
“I’m very disillusioned in the way in which that this entire state of affairs performed out. I’ve been portrayed as a callous and mindless [killer]… which is much from the one who I'm,” he stated in court docket.
“I’ve been slandered and all this made me appear as if I'm an individual who truly has no regret and no repentance.”
Glover stated he was “disillusioned” in the way in which the proceedings progressed, including, “I additionally really feel that at a sure level the reality of all of this will probably be revealed and I will probably be exonerated.”
He then thanked the prosecutor earlier than leaving the courtroom.
However Cheryl Horry, a cousin of Jolly, stated the disgraced rap star deserved a harsher punishment as a result of he has proven no regret.
“I don’t agree with the sentence in any respect. He ought to have gotten the max. He ought to’ve received 25 years as a result of he looks like a heartless punk proper now. He didn’t apologize to nobody,” Horry stated outdoors the courtroom.
“All he was nervous about was his picture, that’s all he talked about the entire time — his picture, the way it made him look,” she stated. “I'm very upset. I’m very indignant.”
In August 2017, Glover received right into a shouting match with Jolly on the nook of East forty fourth St. and Third Avenue earlier than the stabbing happened, police stated after his arrest .
Prosecutors later stated Glover stabbed Jolly as a result of he thought the homeless man was hitting on him.
On Wednesday, Assistant District Legal professional Mark Dahl requested that Glover be sentenced to 18 years in jail.
“The defendant had dedicated a mindless and unwarranted act of violence that took the lifetime of one of many metropolis’s most susceptible populations — the homeless,” Dahl stated.
Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg added that the case was an instance of his workplace cracking down on violent crime.
“Mr. Jolly’s demise was devastating to his household and those that knew him,” Bragg stated in an announcement after the sentencing. “This case makes clear that when you commit a violent crime, we are going to maintain you accountable.”
After the sentencing, Glover’s lawyer Scottie Celestin criticized the choose’s dealing with of the case and stated he deliberate to enchantment.
“I’m absolutely assured this case goes to come back again on enchantment,” he stated outdoors court docket.
“I believe how the choose dealt with this case….I believe she steered the case and it’s going to come back again,” he added with out elaborating.
Throughout the trial, Glover’s lawyer Scottie Celestin claimed he acted in self-defense and that Jolly’s stab wounds weren't life-threatening.
Celestin beforehand blamed Jolly’s demise on a mixture of alcohol and a sedative that employees at Bellevue Hospital gave to him as a result of he was being combative.
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