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| by rocafan on 9/26/2005 08:01:00 PM |
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Sigel Sets Things Straight In XXL Mag
Source:Sohh.com
Earlier today, Beanie Sigel was acquitted of attempted murder charges in relation to an alleged 2003 shooting outside of West Philadelphia strip club, The Pony Tail.
Beans aka Dwight Grant, 31, was accused of shooting Terrance Speller numerous times during a heated argument back in July 2003. Just a few days ago, David Aimes, Speller's friend, admitted that he couldn't remember if Sigel had shot his pal during the 2003 incident. In last year's trial, Aimes had testified that he saw Sigel shoot Speller.
Speller says he first told police that he was shot during a robbery because he was originally scared to tell the truth.
A judge called a mistrial on the attempted murder charges back in April 2004.
After five days of deliberation, a jury of seven women and five men couldn't reach a verdict in the case, forcing the judge to call a mistrial.
This past August, Sigel was released from prison after serving ten months incarcerated on gun possession charges. The charges stem from a 2002 traffic stop in Philly. Sigel received a lenient sentence after admitting that he was in a "reckless, dangerous situation" when he dumped a loaded gun from his car during a police chase. Sigel was initially supposed to serve three years. The judge reduced his sentence after considering his charity work and drug treatment.
Beans also faces another trial for allegedly breaking a man's eye socket during a January 2003 dispute.
In other Beanie Sigel news, the Philadelphia rapper is presently gracing the cover of XXL Magazine's November issue. In the cover story, Beans speaks on the Roc-A-Fella split and revealed that he's not with Damon Dash Music Group.
"Right now I'm not with Damon Dash Music Group and I'm not with Roc-A-Fella Records. I'd rather back away and try to help my friends. Like, even if they could never get together on the business side of things, just the relationship," Beanie told XXL. "I was hurting. Jay and Dame come to court for me, and when I see them and how they mingle, they never really did. It was like fake handshakes and all that. I'm looking, like, 'What the fuck is going on?'"
After sharing that the split was personal, Beans addressed the public's perception that he was cool with Dame and not with Jay.
"Dame is around, we hanging cause it's not just business. Dame only had to be the business mind. Jay gotta be business minded and he's an artist and do so much that his down time is just his. So we can't really hang like how me and Dame hang. Jay never came to Rocawear. I got a clothing line, I got sneakers, so I'm around Dame and Biggs more. So when the people see that, it's like, I went over here. No, we doing business and Jay doing him, Sigel explained. "Just cause I'm not hanging with Jay on his off day, does that mean that Jay don't love me? Does that mean that I don't love Jay? No, that don't mean that. Because you seen Dame with me throughout my whole trial and Dame rolled with me this whole bid, I should be fucking with Dame? That would be the natural assumption. And whoever think that ain't got no loyalty."
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