Casanova
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Casanova is looking for another shot at his freedom. His legal team has formally appealed his prison sentence.
As spotted on HipHopDX the man born Caswell Senior is asking the court system to revisit his case. According to HotNewHipHop the “Get The Strap” rapper’s attorney James Kousouros has filed an appeal. It is widely believed that he received a lighter sentence of 15 years after denouncing his former gang the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation. Kousouros still believes the time handed to his client was too severe. “The fact is that Mr. Senior stayed in this gang as it furthered his rap career,” Casanova’s lawyers wrote. “As he gained moderate success and then a recording contract with Roc Nation, he increasingly separated himself from the gang’s activities despite remaining a member.”
On June 27 Casanova was sentenced to 188 months. The United States Attorney’s Office alleges that he “participated in a shooting in Florida on July 5, 2020, and a robbery in New York City on August 5, 2018, and conspired to traffic over 100 kilograms of marijuana”. According to a press release from the agency Casanova lived what he rhymed about. “He did not simply pretend to be violent in his music or on social media,” the document read. “Unfortunately, he walked the walk. Senior’s offense conduct is not about a few song lyrics or how he marketed his music. Rather, he carried out an array of violent activity and significant narcotics trafficking that benefited some of the gang’s most violent and impactful members.”
On June 26 his Instagram account announced that he has an album coming soon. At this time the release date for the project is not yet known.
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Brooklyn rapper Casanova is in a world of trouble, and he hopes to get some form of leniency from the judge ahead of his sentencing.
Spotted on HipHopDx, via AllHipHop, Casanova penned a letter to Judge Philip Halpern in hopes of getting a more lenient sentence. In the heartfelt letter, the “So Brooklyn” rapper renounced his ties to the Gorilla Stone Nation and admitted to having suicidal thoughts.
Per HipHopDX:
“I am telling you and anyone that will listen that I wanted out before I was arrested, and I am out. I learned through my music career that people will listen and that I don’t need to associate myself with a gang to succeed. I don’t need to associate with a gang even if I don’t succeed,” he wrote.
“While I have been in here I lost my father to cancer. While I put on that strong facade, all I wanted to do was end it. Surviving on Rikers Island and upstate correctional facilities were not easy with racial and gang tension and violence at its height.”
Casanova continued: “I thought I needed to stay in the life in name because it was a way to promote my career. I don’t care what the government tells you. I am telling you the truth. I was not involved in the daily activities of this gang. I wasn’t anyone’s boss.
“What I was and I regret this was a person that they could use to promote themselves in a world I swear to you I was trying to leave. I clearly did not do a good enough job of this as I did find myself in one bad situation after another.”
After being one of the 18 alleged Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation gang members named in a drug conspiracy RICO investigation, he has been behind bars since December 2020.
Casanova Is Looking At Some Serious Jail Time
In May 2022, Casanova pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and narcotics conspiracy despite maintaining his innocence. In his guilty plea, he admitted to trafficking at least 100 kilograms of marijuana and being a signal caller. He also admitted to his involvement in a 2018 NYC robbery that severely hurt a woman and a July 2020 Florida shooting.
If the judge throws the book at him, he’s looking at 60 years behind bars, 15 years minimum.
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