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Lawyer Who Prosecuted G-Dep Wants Him Freed

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty G-Dep, who is currently in prison for murder, is now at the heart of a movement for granting clemency in New York – and the lawyer who prosecuted him is working to help him get free. The former Bad Boy Records star and Harlem native, also known as Trevell Coleman, turned himself in 2010 and confessed to shooting a man in an attempted robbery in October 1993 out of extreme remorse for his actions. He’d be convicted of second-degree murder in 2012, and despite pleas for leniency from the jury foreman and assistant Manhattan District Attorney David Drucker, the judge sentenced G-Dep to a minimum of 15 years to life. Now, Drucker is part of an effort to convince Governor Kathy Hochul to grant him clemency. “Many defendants display remorse...