Rapper Kodak Black has been sentenced to probation for assaulting a teenage girl in a South Carolina hotel room.
Black was originally charged with rape, but accepted a deal and pleaded guilty to first-degree assault at the Florence County courthouse.
Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, faces a 10-year suspended prison sentence. He will not have to go to prison on the charge as long as he completes 18 months of probation, media outlets reported.
The victim in the case watched the plea online, and Black spoke to her.
Black pleaded guilty to first-degree assault (Niagara County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
Rapper Kodak Black has been sentenced to probation for assaulting a teenage girl in a South Carolina hotel room.
Black was originally charged with rape, but accepted a deal and pleaded guilty to first-degree assault at the Florence County courthouse.
Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, faces a 10-year suspended prison sentence. He will not have to go to prison on the charge as long as he completes 18 months of probation, media outlets reported.
The victim in the case watched the plea online, and Black spoke to her.
Black pleaded guilty to first-degree assault (Niagara County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
Rapper Kodak Black has been sentenced to probation for assaulting a teenage girl in a South Carolina hotel room.
Black was originally charged with rape, but accepted a deal and pleaded guilty to first-degree assault at the Florence County courthouse.
Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, faces a 10-year suspended prison sentence. He will not have to go to prison on the charge as long as he completes 18 months of probation, media outlets reported.
The victim in the case watched the plea online, and Black spoke to her.
Black pleaded guilty to first-degree assault (Niagara County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
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American rapper, Kodak Black has pleaded guilty in a legal case stemming from his assault on a high school student in 2016.
Kodak had been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a teenage girl in February 2016 at a hotel. According to prosecutors, he pushed the girl into a wall and onto a bed before assaulting her, allegedly biting her breast and neck.
However, Kodak who was in court Wednesday, April 28, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of first-degree assault and battery in a plea deal.
The rapper’s attorneys, Bradford Cohen and Beattie Ashmore told TMZ that their client who was originally indicted on a felony charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct copped a plea to a lesser charge to put the case behind him.