{"id":423,"date":"2012-05-12T18:08:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T23:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=423"},"modified":"2012-05-14T12:19:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T17:19:18","slug":"boosie-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2012\/05\/12\/boosie-not-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Boosie not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2012\/05\/Boosie-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-425\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2012\/05\/Boosie-4-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2012\/05\/Boosie-4-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2012\/05\/Boosie-4-450x300.png 450w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2012\/05\/Boosie-4.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took jurors all of one hour to find Lil Boosie not guilty of first degree murder&#8211;in a unanimous decision. \u00a0He still has to finish his 8-year sentence on drug charges, but that sentence must seem fairly insignificant compared to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Given the lack of evidence, it&#8217;s surprising that the prosecution would bring the case at all. And although the outcome appears to be a just one, it&#8217;s worth noting that the practice of using rappers&#8217; lyrics against them continues with approval from the court system. \u00a0It might not have proved successful here, but it has in the past, and no doubt it will again in the future. \u00a0That&#8217;s an ongoing miscarriage of justice that might not affect Boosie, but who knows which rapper is next. \u00a0So a big win for Boosie, but another loss for the First Amendment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took jurors all of one hour to find Lil Boosie not guilty of first degree murder&#8211;in a unanimous decision. \u00a0He still has to finish his 8-year sentence on drug charges, but that sentence must seem fairly insignificant compared to life in prison. Given the lack of evidence, it&#8217;s surprising that the prosecution would bring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2012\/05\/12\/boosie-not-guilty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boosie not guilty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}