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Shyne's Light Fading, Loses Chance For New Trial
On Tuesday June 14th, Jamal "Shyne" Barrow lost his chance for a new trial for the Club NYC shooting in 1999.
A five-member panel of a state appeals court ruled unanimously that the jury verdict finding Shyne guilty of firing his gun in Club NYC was supported by evidence provided at the first trial in 2001.
Shyne was sentenced to 10 years for the Club NYC shooting which resulted in three persons injured including Natanya Ruben who was shot in her face. In the May 2001 issue of XXL Shyne claimed that he did not shoot anyone stating "it wasn't my burner. As I sit up in here and talk to you, playboy, can't nobody with right mind, and rational, say it was my gun that hurt them."
In the 2001 trial Murray Richman, Shyne's lawyer, admitted that the rapper fired shots into the air after Matthew 'Scar' Allen and his crew fired the first shot. Shyne's defense team argued that the rapper acted on self-defense and his only goal was to save his own life. They also stated that bullets from his gun were not the ones that struck the gunshot victims, and ballistics results supported this.
Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, who was also a defendant in the case, was found not guilty of four counts of weapons possession and one count of bribing a witness.
Source: sohh
A five-member panel of a state appeals court ruled unanimously that the jury verdict finding Shyne guilty of firing his gun in Club NYC was supported by evidence provided at the first trial in 2001.
Shyne was sentenced to 10 years for the Club NYC shooting which resulted in three persons injured including Natanya Ruben who was shot in her face. In the May 2001 issue of XXL Shyne claimed that he did not shoot anyone stating "it wasn't my burner. As I sit up in here and talk to you, playboy, can't nobody with right mind, and rational, say it was my gun that hurt them."
In the 2001 trial Murray Richman, Shyne's lawyer, admitted that the rapper fired shots into the air after Matthew 'Scar' Allen and his crew fired the first shot. Shyne's defense team argued that the rapper acted on self-defense and his only goal was to save his own life. They also stated that bullets from his gun were not the ones that struck the gunshot victims, and ballistics results supported this.
Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, who was also a defendant in the case, was found not guilty of four counts of weapons possession and one count of bribing a witness.
Source: sohh
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