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Grammy-winning rapper Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to attempted weapon possession Thursday, and expects to receive a one-year jail sentence.

He previously had pleaded not guilty to illegal gun-possession charges that carried at least 31/2 years in prison upon conviction.

Police said a gun was found on his tour bus in Manhattan in 2007.

The rapper, born Dwayne Carter, won last year’s best rap solo performance Grammy for A Milli . His albums include Tha Carter , Tha Carter II and Tha Carter III .

His trial had been due to start Jan. 20.

The judge had been holding a hearing on a debated DNA profiling technique used to tie the rapper to the gun.

Lil Wayne, 27, also is scheduled for trial in Arizona on felony drug-possession and weapons charges. He has pleaded not guilty in that case, which arose from an arrest at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in January, 2008.

Manhattan prosecutors said small amounts of DNA found on the loaded weapon connected it to the platinum-selling artist. Defence lawyer Stacey Richman said the gun wasn’t Lil Wayne’s, and the testing technique was too problematic to prove otherwise.

Police pulled over Lil Wayne’s tour bus in Columbus Circle on July 22, 2007. They said they had seen and smelled marijuana smoke wafting out the door before the bus left a concert venue minutes earlier.

Police said that as an officer approached, the rapper tossed away a Louis Vuitton bag containing a gun.
The defense disputed officers’ basis for searching the bus and noted that more than a dozen other people were aboard.

NEW YORK — Lil Wayne has a date in a Manhattan courtroom, but DNA science will take center stage.

A hearing on a DNA profiling technique used in the rapper’s 2007 gun-possession case was due to start Wednesday. It concerns a process used for identifying people from tiny amounts of DNA — including some that prosecutors say ties the Grammy Award-winner to a gun found on his tour bus after a concert.

The 27-year-old has pleaded not guilty. He faces at least 3 1/2 years in prison if convicted.
The hearing aims to establish whether what’s known as low copy number DNA profiling has general scientific acceptance.

Lil Wayne, born Dwayne Carter, won last year’s best rap solo performance Grammy for “A Milli.” His albums include “Tha Carter,” “Tha Carter II” and “Tha Carter III.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    So even if he didn’t own the gun, him touching it could get him convicted… This is so stupid

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    My people own plenty pistols and assault rifles, YOU WONT FIND MY PRINTS ON SHYT!

    Why? Cause I dont touch that shyt… he should know better, where’s all that fancy shmancy “Suck my d!ck & my cup” talk now?

    If we shouldnt worry about his cup, he shouldnt worry about pistols he aint gone fire! My point is, if he touched it, chances are he fired it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    I mean who is going to pay for all this s**t? Wait this happened in NY so I guess they goin after this nigga hard as hell. I guess if you touch a gun in NY you goin to jail lol.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Eric-Toy/ Eric-Toy

    What happened to the right to bear arms? If I was a millionaire traveling across the country on a bus I would have a gun.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MsSubmissive-Capable/ MsSubmissive-Capable

    U know they going to take him down. White people dont like rich uppity black folks. Especially that he like to say he is a gangsta/he can do anything he wanna do on national tv.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doinmeallday247/ doinmeallday247

    What does white people have to do with this? he broke the law so he deserves what he gets.. Just cause he’s a rapper(might I say, not a very good one at that) he should get treated differently, hell nah.. He’s got a kanye ego thinks he can do whatever he wants cause he’s got money. Let someone else that don’t have the money he does and see if they only get 3 years.. yeah right.. He should get time(IF the DNA says it was his) and honestly I think entertainers should get more time cause they are the one our kids look up too(depending on the crime).. It aint about race he was just stupid not to have a license for the gun.. He knows he has money that people are eventually going to try to do somethin to him so I see why he would carry it but its legal to bare arms if you have the right paper work that only cost $60. If he couldn’t go down and pay the $60 bucks to carry it maybe he shouldn’t have one..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    Plaxico u may have a new roomate

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/3iiiE/ 3iiiE

    therez gotta be more too it…good luck wayne

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Floridanigg84/ Floridanigg84

    FIRST LIL BOOSIE NOW WAYNE…MAN THEM JAIL NICCAS GONNA LOVE YALL TINY ASSES LOL AND BOOSIE ALREADY SOUND LIKE A BTCH!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rockwilder1911/ rockwilder1911

    profiling you cant tell me little wayne not another trophy for the nypd! They not pulling over miley cyrus bus looking for guns @doinmeallday get out of here I never understood why white women be on black planet trying to holla at the brothers we would be on whiteplanet for that damn!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    DONT DROP THE CUP! Wait he’s a star, he’s going to PC.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/missstrings43/ missstrings43

    I really hate the fact that Wayne has been attending college and helped his mom to with his first million dollar check, helped Hurricane Katrina…and not to mention Obama speaking about him in a conference to young children….Dam! And now this?
    I also have to agree whole heartedly about what “ROCKWILDER1911 said in his post about ..and I quote him here…..”@doinmeallday get out of here I never understood why white women be on black planet trying to holla at the brothers we would be on whiteplanet for that damn!!!”…I don’t get that fact either my love…not even a little bit. And it really appears from the actually post that she made below..that she is totally AGAINST black men…Go back and re-read her post. It appears to be a lot more hate towards more than JUST LilWayne on this one.
    Kudos ROCKWILDER1911.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/e-spizzle/ e-spizzle

    dats some true s**t rockwilder1911.. @doinmeallday..Of course wayne has a big ego, so f**ken what, how do u think he got where he’s at? he has to think something of himself? No body that has to perform in front of millions of people walks onto stage thinken “im not the best but i am gonna do the best that i can”, and if they do, then they aint gettin nowhere… this applies to everything in life..every morning i get up and look in the mirror and think to myself that i am the best at anything i put my mind to. that is a boss’s mentality. if u want to be an employee, then by all means follow somebody that actually thinks something of themselves…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    I hope he sobers up and reads some books up in there….

    oh yeah…. no kissing and calling another grown man ya daddy…. that s**t aint the business !!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doinmeallday247/ doinmeallday247

    haha.. some of ya’ll be playin the race card a little too much.. I aint on white planet cause I don’t like white men, but I think its funny how “some” black people talk about racism and it how tired they are about it, but dog white people for tryin to a part of your culture. Im just sayin lil wayne is going to get what he deserves.. I think the gun charge is stupid since he didn’t do anything with it but like I said he has all that money he could have went and got a damn license for it and they wouldn’t have been able to get him for s**t..Not judging it just is what it is.. I love my black men im sorry you can’t accept that this is 09 and the only way racism is going to end is to quit puttin people in “race” catagories. But no matter who hates that I won’t stop dating black men so ya’ll can get lost with that racist bulls**t.. The only person who can judge me is GOD so i aint trippin haha.. God bless ya’ll

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doinmeallday247/ doinmeallday247

    If I posted that and it seemed like Im against black people Im sorry maybe i wrote it out wrong.. I dont even get on here and look for guys, I’ve got a fine one right here at home.. i just like readin the post and whats going on in the black community. Im titled for my opinion just like any of you.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shamel_/ Shamel_

    LMMFAO @ rockwilder1911…you spoke the truth. Sad thing is we can’t even have BLACKplanet (emphasis on BLACK) to ourselves (smh). Black men in America are becoming extinct. If we are not losing them to violence it is to the prison system. This is nothing other than modern day slavery. However the REALITY is we are the ones who are enslaving ourselves. This was a silly incident that can cost Wayne in a major way. All he can hope for now is the bare minimum sentence and a LESSON LEARNED. He got a gang of kids and this is not a good example to set for them. However, what’s new?!?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nunbudurychz/ nunbudurychz

    Crazy ass gun laws up there. Damn. Better stay the hell outta pawn shops up there. DNA evidence might f**k you up. I wonder who gets custody of the styrofoam while he’s away?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlackHeartPanther/ BlackHeartPanther

    I mean come on ppl chill out this has nothing 2 do at all about race U wanna talk tuff & claim u a gangster don’t start crying when the police is all on Ur ass! If the cops smell weed Y not search the bus, Y not look 4 guns, Y not look 4 drugs, Y not check 4 warrants lol Ok I went 2 far but U motherf**kers R tripping. Micheal Vick, T.I., Plaxico, Lil Bootsie, ect ect………..All these R dumb ass niggas.vick was the face of football making over 100 of millions of dollars & this dumb ass nigga fighting pitbulls 4 what? Money? & the rest of the dummies either carrying guns or trying 2 get them. When they can go get the papers 2 carry 1 or hire some bodyguard 2 carry them stop trying 2 live a thug life cause if U live by U die by. Just B a studio gangster lol & Y should a rapper or somebody who plays some type of sport get more time cause kids look up 2 them that’s the dummest s**t ever mayB u should raise ur own kids & cut BET off or what ever Ur kids r in2 & B a role model 4 them if U don’t want ur kids looking up 2 these figures guess what turn whatever it is there watching or listening 2 the f**k off!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doinmeallday247/ doinmeallday247

    @BlackHeartPanter…I couldn’t agree more, my child don’t watch it cause he’s too young, but im talkin about the teenagers now days hearin its cool to kill people and steal, drugs and call women out of there name,play guys for money or sleep around, I don’t care how old you are that stuff aint cool.. it can’t be all blamed on the parents cause you can only raise them and hope what you’ve taught them sticks but I understand what your saying

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Complex_Crazy_Beauty/ Complex_Crazy_Beauty

    doinmeallday is just another whitie who is probably in all actuality racist as hell but loves to poison our black men with her dirty white kitty. If you want to date black men fine, if you want to “talk black” and listen to hip hop fine, but please refrain from commenting on anything that has to do with black culture and politics on our black site. Ugh

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    Ok why is everybody hating on that white girl? Black woman be so jealous at times.

    My thing is that they are putting him in jail for having a gun and that is it. To me it seems that NY is hard as hell on guns and we got people that say we need more gun control. Buress for 2 years for shooting himself in the leg and Wayne is getting a year for illegally possessing a firearm?

    @BlackHeartPanther n!gga use better grammar I can barely read what you are trying to say.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    lol @ Sub… “EYE” didn’t even attempt to pollute my vision with that literary display

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doinmeallday247/ doinmeallday247

    you know what f**k ya’ll you talkin about im bein racist.. no.. I love black men and black women are beautiful.. Racism isn’t getting anybody anywhere but hell GO AHEAD hate on me all you want cause i think its kinda funny really.. I don’t talk black(what is talking black anyway?), im country as hell, poison your black men?? Please if they don’t want it they don’t have to come around.. NO LOOSE GOOSE’S over this way sweetheart.. Love is blind and we all bleed red our cultures might be different n all but we all are trying to get that one color GREEN and thats the only color I see.. SO go ahead and continue to hate on me haha.. GOD don’t like ugly whether your black or white asian or mexican whatever making dumb ass comments because a person is another color is ignorant God bless ya’ll haha

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Duhamel/ Duhamel

    Well in this life you get what your hand calls for. You wanna be gansta and run around carrying guns. You should stayed home that night enjoying your toys and the fruits of your labor. My advice to Lil Wayne is now you are going to see real gangster life. Take a home economics course before you turn yourself in. Learn how to wash clothes,cook and take care of a cell. Because if you do not come there domesticated, you are going to catch hell from your husband. Most of all when you enter behind the walls, do not walk in. Turn around and back in backwards. Because its going down like that when Big Bubba and the boys finish. You definitely will be intouch with your feminine side.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Complex_Crazy_Beauty/ Complex_Crazy_Beauty

    Jealous..NO…jealous of what? I just call it like I see it. I’m sure after she read my post she probably called me all types of black b***hes lol that’s what they do.

    Back to the matter at hand, if I were him I would stay strapped too but I would make sure everything was legit and in order. He may have a felony and may not be able to obtain his gun license which is understandable but then he needed to make sure that someone in his camp was legit. Too much money to make mistakes like this, he needs to learn to be smarter.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ClosMysterio/ ClosMysterio

    DAmn a millionaire couldn’t find nobody to take the charge? He needs to re evaluate his entourage

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Complex_Crazy_Beauty/ Complex_Crazy_Beauty

    @ClosMysterio EXACTLY! Isn’t that what they get paid to be around for?? Hmmmm

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    Well? This dude is a THUG right? Thug’s go to jail/prison etc., and is proud of having a rap sheet, conviction(s), etc., so what’s the big deal? He’ll do that little bit of time, the same people who NEVER tried to let him know when he was F**ing up, will be right their waiting on him, to further use him, ride off him etc., the dumb ho’s who have unprotected sex with him will be readly & willing with their legs open, to have more kid’s by him to use as a $Pay Day$ for themselves! So life goes on for this dude!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/i_lov_N_O/ i_lov_N_O

    THIS BOY IS A WANT TO BE. HE NEED TO DO TIME IN JAIL…………

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doinmeallday247/ doinmeallday247

    no i don’t have to call you no black b***h a b***h is b***h no matter the color honey and I don’t know you from s**t just like you don’t know me from s**t.. it was your opinion just like I had mine end of story, you wanna continue to be racist go ahead..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SolidRock5/ SolidRock5

    This is gettin outta hand on so many levels! Lil Wayne is facin this charge and folks arguin on racism?!? The fact is NYPD got him on some minor s**t that built up!! Man I hate it but it happens to the best of us! Jus got to man up and face these mistakes n learn from ‘em!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SheShe88/ SheShe88

    He was in NY
    *We have a statue called PROJECT EXILE
    meaning if u are found with an illegal gun u get 7yrs off da BACK!
    *1yr for every bullet.
    So if i had committed a crime and they found an illegal gun on me i may get a month for my crime but i have to serve 7yrs and a month.
    So how did he get ALMOST a year????

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Agility/ Agility

    It amazes me how rappers want to project a lawless thug image and will do anything for street cred, but when it’s time to face the music (people who commit crimes to go jail) all of the sudden they want to change their tune. If you don’t want to be charged with breaking gun laws, don’t carry an illegal gun. Don’t cry if you get caught and have to suffer the consequences – it’s really pathetic.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Empress_Afia/ Empress_Afia

    well first off…Lil Wayne clearly isn’t as smart as I thought he was 1)…He should know that you goin to get in s**t if there is a gun on the bus doesnt matter if it is his or not… 2) he got charges in Arizona on drugs and weapons and we all know he uses an insane amount of drugs…and that cough syrup s**t mixed with alcohol…thats what killin these niggas…. 3) he all he be talkin bout is his stink ass 9mm bulls**t….so who cares if he does time….he needs it

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SanMarcosEric/ SanMarcosEric

    Seems to me that I once read something in the Bill of Rights that said, “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” I have read this news story at several sources. I have also read a number of the comments below. I am amazed that neither the reporters or the readers who have commented below have any concern over the eroding of our Constitutional rights. The Constitution of the United States says that Lil Wayne had a right to have a gun in his tour bus. The man tours for months out of each year. For much of the year that is his home, and he has as much right to defend it, as you and I have to defend our homes.

    This is just another example of how the government is concentrating its power at the expense of our freedoms. If we allow this, it will not be long before the Constitution become irrelevant. When that happens, you will not have a right to bear arms; you will not have the right to free speech; you will no longer have a free press; you will no longer have the right to petition the government. How many of us have even read the Constitution since leaving school?

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