UPDATE, MAY 4: Rapper Kidd Creole was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for the stabbing death of a homeless man.The 61-year-old, real name is Nathaniel Glover, killed John Jolly, a 55-year-old vagrant.“A life is a life, whether the person is homeless, whether the person is a CEO,” said Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Michele Rodney. “Within seconds … Mr.
Jolly’s life was changed forever.”The judge did not believe claims of self-defense.“You didn’t know him,” she told Glover. “You didn’t know that he had a [history of] violence or was a sexual offender.
Those things were not known and don’t have much relevance in terms of anybody’s action in this case.”UPDATED: Rapper Kidd Creole has been found guilty of first-degree manslaughter for fatally stabbing a homeless man.
The 62-year-old Creole faces a possible sentence of up to 25 years. He is slated to be sentenced on May 4.EARLIER: Kidd Creole, part of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the first rap group to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is on trial for murder in New York City.Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is accused of stabbing a homeless man to death in 2017.
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