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Tupac Shakur sentenced in New Yori City...
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Tupac Shakur sentenced in New Yori City...

Item # 728706 ·

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Feb. 8, 1995

* Tupac Shakur 2Pac sentenced
* Sexual assault in Manhattan
* American rapper and actor

Page 4 has a somewhat discrete report with one column heading: "Rapper Shakur Gets Prison for Assault" (see image)
Great to have this report in a newspaper from the home of the entertainment industry.
Provenance note: This issue comes from The Los Angeles Times own archives, part of their in-house collection used to create their digital archive. 
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because there was really no reason to save it at the time.
Complete with all sections (70+ pages), nice condition.

Background: The legal proceeding and conviction surrounding Tupac Shakur’s February 1995 sentencing centered on a November 1993 incident at Manhattan’s Parker Meridien Hotel, where a female fan accused Shakur and three associates of sexual assault. Although the jury acquitted Shakur of the most severe charges—including first-degree sodomy and illegal firearm possession—they convicted him on three counts of first-degree sexual abuse for non-consensual touching. Delivering the formal sentence on February 8, 1995, Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Daniel Fitzgerald rejected the defense's characterization of the event and condemned the act as "brutal violence," handing down an 18-month to $4\frac{1}{2}$-year state prison sentence. Shakur maintained his innocence throughout the trial, addressing the court prior to sentencing to refuse an apology and assert that he had been betrayed by the judicial system. Sent to the high-security Clinton Correctional Facility, Shakur became the first artist in history to achieve a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 while incarcerated (Me Against the World) before being released in October 1995 after serving nearly eight months, when Death Row Records CEO Marion "Suge" Knight posted his $1.4 million appeal bond in exchange for a multi-album recording contract.

Category: 1870-1879
Price
$58
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.