In the wake of Jimmy “Henchman” Rosemond being granted a new ‘Murder-for-Hire’ trial. G Unit head honcho, 50 Cent weighs in on Jimmy “Henchman” Rosemond Retrial!!!
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CelebNMusic247.com has learned that Jimmy “Henchman” Rosemond is apparenlty getting a second chance to reduce his sentence. He has been granted a new ‘Murder-for-Hire’ trial.
Unfortunately, Henchman’s foe, 50 Cent is NOT feeling the same way. He took to Instagram to weigh in on the news, calling Jimmy a straight up RAT!
50 Cent weighs in saying:
“OG Rat jimmy ? got a new MURDER trial. ? Ain’t nobody left to tell on Jimmy. LMAO. #FRIGO”
Henchman was given a life sentence plus 20 years for a 2009 murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the death of G-Unit associate Lowell “Lodi Mack” Fletcher.
Now, the Page Six reports that the former hip-hop executive’s conviction has been overturned.
A Second Circuit Appeals Court judge granted Rosemond a new trial due to the actions of a Manhattan federal court judge at the defendant’s 2014 trial. The federal court judge was deemed to be at fault for limiting the defense’s line of questioning of a witness named Brian McCleod.
The appeals judge Denny Chin wrote in his ruling:
“Because the district court?s interpretation of the scope of the waiver provision was unduly narrow, its restrictions on Rosemond?s ability to cross?examine his witnesses and mount an effective defense violated the Sixth Amendment.”
Rosemond’s next trial will be the third proceeding regarding his role in the murder-for-plot case. The original trial, which took place in 2014, resulted in a hung jury. A jury would find Rosmeond guilty of the charges later that year.
Rosemond told AllHipHop:
“Today truth has come to defend me in my fight for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Truth has knocked out falsehood. My God is truth. I want to thank my attorneys Jonathan Edelstein, Michael Rayfield and Bruce Maffeo for being soldiers of the inevitable.”
Rosemond’s attorneys believe their client’s overturned conviction could help the former executive’s other life sentence – for his alleged role in leading a $10 million-a-year cocaine operation – be dismissed. Many of the witnesses in Rosemond’s murder-for-hire trial provided the same testimony in the drug trafficking case.
