Pooh Shiesty Fights 8-year Prison Request in Federal Firearms Case

Jailed rapper Pooh Shiesty filed new court docket paperwork Friday claiming “ballistics and forensic proof” show he didn’t shoot a person within the buttocks throughout a botched Florida drug deal in October 2020 — thus making a latest probation report recommending a jail sentence according to the eight years sought by prosecutors is “illogical.”

The brand new submitting from protection lawyer Brad Cohen argues that Shiesty, whose authorized identify is Lontrell Williams, pleaded responsible to solely a single depend of firearms conspiracy in January, so it’s not honest a pre-sentencing report submitted to the court docket suggests he was concerned in a “theft/capturing” throughout a confrontation on the Landon Lodge in Bay Harbor Islands, Fla., on Oct. 9, 2020.

In line with Cohen, not solely did federal prosecutors conform to drop the theft and capturing costs in Williams’ indictment beneath the deal — they by no means may have confirmed the costs at trial.

“The federal government needs this court docket to imagine Mr. Williams, with a web value of $3,449,446, deliberate a theft, then dedicated a theft, after which shot a recognized drug seller who knew him nicely and will simply establish him. Throughout just a few hundred-dollar drug deal for private use, whereas he was driving a lime inexperienced McLaren that he rented from the alleged sufferer,” the Friday submitting from Cohen obtained by Rolling Stone reads.

“Mr. Williams possessed over $40,000 in money and was driving a automobile valued at over $200,000. It might be illogical for Mr. Williams to stage a theft by two different people over one thing so miniscule as a bottle of liquid codeine with a retail worth of some hundred {dollars}, at most, when any injury performed to the McLaren within the course of would have price hundreds of {dollars} to restore,” the filings argues.

“We are going to present each ballistics and forensic proof that Mr. Williams didn’t hearth a weapon and didn’t strike anybody throughout the Bay Harbor incident,” Cohen states. He says medical data present the bullet that struck the person “entered the left buttocks close to the highest of the muscle and exited on the decrease a part of the muscle” with “the angle being that of a downward slope.”

“Mr. Williams was sitting in a susceptible place. When [the man] received shot, he was standing in entrance of the passenger door at an angle above Mr. Williams. It merely would have been unimaginable for the wound to happen with Mr. Williams being the shooter,” the brand new paperwork states.

In his Friday submitting, Cohen claims whereas the probation pre-sentence report requires an offense degree carrying a minimal sentence of between seven and 9 years in jail, William’s most offense degree must be a lot decrease. Cohen says the right calculation, primarily based on protection proof, is a most guideline vary of between 37 and 46 months. He additionally guarantees to file one thing quickly arguing Williams really deserves a “below-guideline sentence.”

The 2 federal prosecutors dealing with the case for the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace in Miami didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from Rolling Stone on Friday.

Williams, 22, has been behind bars since his June 9 arrest involving costs over a capturing at a Miami strip membership which have since been dropped. He was indicted within the Landon Lodge case weeks later and ordered held with out bail.

In line with prosecutors, the Memphis rapper, whose Again in Blood collaboration with Lil Durk went platinum final yr, allegedly drove the rented McLaren to the resort the day of the alleged capturing to buy marijuana, codeine and a pair of high-end athletic sneakers.

Video surveillance allegedly exhibits Williams pulling as much as the resort with one other man described as his street supervisor using shotgun and a 3rd man following behind them in a black Mercedes Maybach.

In line with investigators, Williams accepted a bag of marijuana and examined a pair of sneakers earlier than he pulled out a Draco subcompact weapon and fired, hitting the alleged sufferer within the buttocks.

As Williams drove off, a Louis Vuitton bag full of $40,912 in money fell out of the motive force’s seat of the McLaren, authorities claimed. Investigators stated they linked the money to Williams by matching the total serial quantity on one of many recovered payments to a $100 invoice flashed on Williams’ Instagram account days earlier than the alleged theft.

Williams’ sentencing is now set for April 20.