Female rapper Remy Ma (real name Remy Smith) plans to appeal the court’s guilty verdict given yesterday (March 27) in her trial for assault and weapons charges. As reported by HipHopSince1987 earlier [click to read], a jury convicted Remy on two counts of first-degree assault, attempted coercion and criminal possession of a weapon.
Remy’s attorney Ivan Fischer still remains adamant that she accidentally shot Makeda Barnes-Joseph in her car, after a scuffle over $3,000 cash allegedly stolen from Remy’s purse in July of 2007.
During his closing statements, Fischer claimed the accidental shooting theory was a fact that was supported by Barnes-Joseph’s own testimony. However, prosecutors say that Remy Ma’s shooting was the result of the rapper’s decision to take “an illegal .45-caliber automatic and [load] it with hollow-point bullets and go into Ms. Joseph’s car.”
Remy Ma faces 25 years in prison. She will be held in prison until her sentencing day next month.
In an e-mail he wrote to MTV, Papoose said that he and Remy had plans to marry next month—and that those plans will continue, despite her facing up to 25 years in prison. This builds upon what’s been previously reported by DX [click here to read…]
“We always wanted to keep our personal lives personal, so that’s why we never went public with our relationship,” he said. “Right now, I just feel like she gotta live through me. Yes, we were scheduled to be married on a yacht April 27th. But due to circumstances beyond our control, we are now making arrangements to be married in prison.”
Papoose has previously shown affection toward Remy in his lyrics (“Remy look good in person, just like she do in the magazine/so I’ma stay close to Ms. Martin, like Dr. King”), but the two had flatly denied being involved up until this point.
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