Youngboy Never Broke Again is still facing another gun charge.
NBA Youngboy, who has been fighting for the firearm possession charge in the federal California Central District Court, has now been found not guilty. According to reports, the Baton Rouge rapper celebrated with a jump after hearing the verdict on Friday (July 15th).
“I’m feeling great,” said Youngboy, who hugged his lawyers James Manasseh, André Bélanger, Tanner Woods, Robby Gill, and Andrew Flier. “It’s a relief.”
“It’s this man, he’s the greatest,” Youngboy told Rolling Stone for his lawyer Manasseh. “No, it’s all the people around us. And He was not guilty. He was innocent,” said lawyer James Manasseh. “Never was guilty,” responds NBA.
EXCLUSIVE video of NBA YoungBoy reacting to NOT GUILTY verdict after stepping outside federal courthouse.
“He was not guilty. He was innocent,” lawyer James Manasseh says.
“Never was guilty,” YoungBoy tells @RollingStone. pic.twitter.com/vAuBAzp9G7
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“Our main topic was ‘that day.’ Nobody knew who actually was at his house that day. They didn’t know if he knew the gun was in the car that day. And then we basically, we just argued that since they couldn’t prove he had knowledge of the gun that day, that we couldn’t say without a reasonable doubt that he knew about the gun,” Barriere said.
“If they had proof of him having the gun in Los Angeles, like taking pictures with it, or if the DNA test could have confirmed that he was actually one of the DNA (profiles) on the gun,” maybe the verdict would have been different, he said.
The rapper, real name Kentrell Gaulden was arrested on March 22, 2021, when he was charged with a firearm possession, as the authorities recovered an FN FNX .45 caliber pistol from the rear passenger floorboard of his Mercedes Maybach. The rapper was out of prison on $1.5 million bail and was on house arrest in Utah since October 26, 2021.
Meanwhile, the rapper will now fight another gun charge, for which he was arrested at a video shoot on Sept. 28, 2020, in his hometown of Baton Rouge along with 15 other people. Police reportedly seized 14 guns, marijuana, Hydrocodone, digital scales and Xanax.
