• datavoid@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    Hate it when they make examples of people who hurt the rich or famous… Reminds me of the guy who “killed” Mac Miller.

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      10 days ago

      Hate it when they make examples of people who hurt the rich or famous

      Make examples of by… checks notes failing to prosecute anyone for three decades?

      This is who Tupac was, btw; not your typical “rich and famous” person. I don’t think there has been a more political rapper with as much mainstream success.

      Also fyi the guy who was just convicted of the murder told police (on tape, in 2008!) that he was offered $1M by Sean “Diddy” Combs to do it.

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        10 days ago

        Are you arguing tupac wasn’t rich and famous? Are people getting 40 years for a single murder generally?

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          10 days ago

          Are you arguing tupac wasn’t rich and famous?

          No, he was certainly rich (by some definitions) and famous, although at the time of his death his net worth was negative several million (owed to his record label). But did you watch the video I linked?

          Are people getting 40 years for a single murder generally?

          For first-degree murder, especially for someone with a criminal history as in this case, a sentence of “life without parole” is not uncommon in Nevada.

    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      Tupac was someone who grew up dirt poor, in an incredibly poor and dangerous area, and made his money from being talented and hard working.

      People like him are not the enemy.

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      10 days ago

      Did he really do it tho? Feel like the cops were to willing to jump on the band wagon.

      are you kidding? he told the cops 18 years ago (on tape) that he did it, and later he wrote a book about how he did it. to me it doesn’t really feel like the cops and prosecutors were particularly over-eager to do anything here.

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        10 days ago

        As I understand it it was a proffer, meaning they granted him immunity for anything he said during the interrogation.

        Much later he said some of that shit in interviews and books, which he certainly did not enjoy legal immunity, so they could now go after him.

        Basically he self snitched.

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          10 days ago

          So because it was in a book they could finally go after him? Is the book what triggered the court proceedings?