Takers Star TI Headed Back to Prison for 11 Mos…

www.blacktree.tv TI is heading back to prison, after a federal judge revoked the rapper’s probation and sentenced the rap star to 11 months in prison for possessing drugs in September in Los Angeles. TI appeared in court today (October 15th) for a hearing that started at 2 flanked by his team of lawyers that included Ed Garland, Steve Sadow, Don Samuel, Janice Capek, Kristen Wright and Dwight Thomas. The courtroom was packed, as he stood before Judge Charles Pannell Jr. Prosecutors chastised the Grammy Award winning rapper for violating the terms of his federal probation for attempting to purchase machine guns and silencers in October of 2007 and wanted to send him away for two years. During the hearing, a small fire broke out on the side of the courthouse, causing a stir, but the proceedings continued. The rapper’s defense attorneys argued that drugs in his system were the result of a root canal and TI admitted to using the drugs, after he had dental surgery. The rapper asked the judge to sentence him to rehab for a drug addiction, but he was sentenced to the 11 months in prison, instead. BlackTree TV caught up with Rapper/Actor/Movie Producer TI, to talk about his lead role in the new film Takers. How exactly did TI catch the acting bug?, you will have to watch to hear the answer to that. TAKERS takes you into the world of a notorious group of criminals (Idris Elba, Paul Walker, TI, Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Michael Ealy) who continue to baffle police by …
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How “Pot” (that’s jive talk for marijuana) leads to a hideous “H” (HEROIN) Habit. A Judge can’t understand why so many youths are marijuana addicts, so he decides to investigate. He visits Phyllis, a high school senior and former marijuana junkie, who tells him about the horrible effects marijuana has had on her. It made her feel like she was speeding “100 miles an hour!” and she therefore became a heroin user. She managed to overcome her addiction to marijuana and heroin, but in the process ruined her hair. This leads the judge to the logical conclusion that the drug problem in the US was introduced by the godless Red Communists in an effort to “undermine morale” and that the way to stop the drug epidemic was to “use common sense” (an earlier version, apparently, of the Reagan-era “Just Say No!” campaign, and which had pretty much the same effect–ie, none).
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