Racial bias in hip-hop cases

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If you're associated with hiphop and you

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happen to be African-Amean and you're

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seen with the same group of people,

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there is this tendency to just assume

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you for some reason are considered part

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of gang activity. And I really feel like

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they're targets. It's got to the point

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now if there is a hip-hop artist that's

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charged with a crime anywhere in the

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United States, I'm going to get a phone

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call. I've been in this criminal defense

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space for more than three decades. As my

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practice built up, I would occasionally

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represent somebody famous. I was

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fortunate enough to represent Dennis

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Rodman, Faith Evans, Shaquille O'Neal,

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and then eventually I represented a guy

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named Rick Davis. To me, he's Rick

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Davis. To the rest of the world, he's

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Gucci Mate. Let's go.

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Getting him out on bond against all

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odds. It's getting him early released.

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As that was happening, everybody else

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started calling up.

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One of the turning points for me on many

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levels was dealing with the case

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involving Migos in South Georgia. State

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of Georgia versus Kiari Kendra.

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Migos came in and they performed and law

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enforcement went after them and they

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went