A judge sentenced Rapper T.I. to one year and a day behind bars on federal weapons charges on Friday. The 28-year-old rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris, apologized at the hearing.
“Today I would like to say thank you to some, and apologize to all,” the rapper told U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr. at sentencing.
Harris pleaded guilty last March after he was arrested in 2007, attempting to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers. The arrest on Oct. 13 of that year occurred blocks from where he was to headline the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta hours later.
He will have between 30 and 60 days to report to prison. Harris already has completed about 1,000 hours of community service and has warned youths about the pitfalls of guns, drugs, violence. He will need to complete 470 additional hours.
He had faced a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count, until he cut a deal and pleaded guilty last March to the federal weapons charge and was sentenced to one year and a day in prison.
T.I. said fear was the reason he tried to buy the guns. His best friend, Philant Johnson, was killed following a post-performance party in Cincinnati in 2006. A man was found guilty last year in the murder case.
i dont think that he should of got jail time for having a wepond there are a bunch of people walking around with wepons and a nother reson if he was trying to protect him self its not like he pould it out on some one
Its not like i am contesting the rulings levied on T I but Harris has brought more joy to the world than evil and so i ask why was he not sentenced for joy.To be more reasonable here Clifford harris is too young to be given a jail sentence that long,that is killing him spiritually and like a youth too i will never pull out a gun on some one until he/she does first but i think is necessary to have one or some for self defence looking at the world today but what i will advice any one reading this is to beware of drugs!!!
Ti is my future husband and i want him to get out soon