YoungBoy Never Broke Again found not guilty of illegal gun possession in LA

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YoungBoy Never Broke Again was found not guilty in the LA courts on Friday of possessing a firearm, in one of two criminal cases the rapper has been battling of late which could result in significant jail time due to a past conviction.The case being heard in the LA courts related to an incident in March 2021, which in turn was linked to the other criminal proceedings he is facing, in which he is among sixteen people accused of possessing illegal guns and drugs at a video shoot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2020.Police in LA were responding to an arrest warrant stemming from the Baton Rouge case when they found another gun in a vehicle being driven by the rapper, real name Kentrell Gaulden.

He fled the scene after being chased by LA police, who then discovered the weapon in Gaulden’s abandoned vehicle.Lawyers for the rapper argued that Gaulden, unaware of the arrest warrant in relation to the Baton Rouge case, was confused by the scale of the police operation in LA, which is why he fled the scene.

Meanwhile, they added, he had no prior knowledge of the gun that was in his car, meaning that someone else must have placed it there.With no fingerprints or DNA connecting Gaulden to the weapon, prosecutors presented images from social media that showed the rapper handling a similar gun.

However, his legal reps said that the weapon in those images was identical to an airsoft replica and could not be confirmed as being the same gun police found in their client’s car.The prosecution also wanted to present in court lyrics from three of the rapper’s tracks which, they said, proved he was familiar with the specific kind of gun they had located in his vehicle.