Lil Boosie has been found not guilty on his murder trial. WAFB.com reports:
Baton
Rouge rapper Lil Boosie, whose real name is Torence Hatch, has been
found not guilty of murder. The jury deliberated for about an hour and a
half.
Supporters are cheering outside the 19th
Judicial Courthouse in Baton Rouge. Hatch and his defense team hugged
and began crying once the verdict was read.
In its closing, the prosecution said the
evidence speaks for itself. Prosecutor Dana Cummings said Michael
Louding, known as "Marlo Mike," admitted on interrogation tape that
Hatch gave him $2,800 in $20s after the murder. She said Carvis "Donkey"
Webb and Hatch worked on Louding to get him to tell the "truth." According to Cummings, during phone calls to Louding, Webb told him,
"Follow my lead and you coming home Marlo."
She also told the jury Hatch wrote in a
letter to his mother that he might have said some things that
incriminate him. Cummings said the lyrics in Hatch's songs again prove
his intent. She said in the phrase "Yo Marlo" he even calls out his hit
man. "That's billboard strong," Cummings said.
Hatch's lawyer said detectives called Louding
the "ace in the hole." Attorney Jason Williams pointed out that's a
poker saying. He said poker is a game of deceit. He added the detective
testified he's skilled at deceit and that's what this case is about. He
told the jury to notice investigators said they preserved computers with
lyrics on them for jurors to see, but police didn't preserve 10 hours
of interrogation tape for jurors to see.
"This case not about Boosie, but who's being tried first?" Williams asked. "Not the man who says he killed six people."
He went on to state there is no proof Hatch
had beef with Terry Boyd. He said the task force that was created needs a
big arrest to keep going and then asked, "What's bigger than a rapper
going down for murder?" He told the jury no one followed up on the lead
Terry Boyd's mother gave, until last year. By that time, the man she
told them to talk to was dead. Officers also said they never read the
Terry Boyd file, but they were investigating.
Boyd had 15 old scars on his body from bullet
wounds. An old bullet was found in him. Williams posed the question,
"Was someone coming back to finish what they started?" He said this all
started over a letter Lee Lucas supposedly sent telling Hatch that,
"Boyd was getting out of prison and he said he's going to 'jack and slap
you.'"
"Where is that letter? Why didn't Lee Lucas testify?" the attorney asked.
He also stated lots of lyrics were played, but prosecutors didn't play the one that said f--- Hillar Moore. "Why?" he asked.
Prosecutors were given a chance to speak to the jury one last time and finished around 2 p.m.
The judge then gave jurors instructions and they were sent to deliberate the case around 2:30 p.m.
Defense attorneys for Hatch rested their case Thursday afternoon without calling any witnesses.
Attorney Jason Williams told jurors Thursday
the defense was resting its case based on the fact the burden of proof
lies with the state and based on the testimony of the state's witnesses.
The prosecution had rested its case around 2:44 p.m. after six days of testimony from 27 witnesses.
Prosecutors contend Hatch hired Michael
"Marlo Mike" Louding to kill Terry Boyd, 35, who was shot to death
through a window while inside his home in 2009.
Hatch is currently serving an 8-year prison
term on drug charges and is being held in the Louisiana State
Penitentiary at Angola.
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