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Eric Holder, the man convicted in the murder of California rapper Nipsey Hussle, has had his 60 years to life in prison sentence upset by the state’s court of appeals.
Since then, Holder has fought to appeal the court’s decision filing arguments against closing trial arguments. However, according to AllHipHop, Holder’s efforts case has been rejected.
Holder gunned Nipsey Hussle down in 2019 outside of his Marathon clothing store and was found guilty of first-degree murder.
He received 25 years to life on the murder count. He was also sentenced to another 25 years to life because a gun was used and another 10 years for shooting two other people that same day.
Eric Holder was sentenced to 60 years to life for the murder of Nipsey Hussle. pic.twitter.com/zpHkDo7Vcq
— DatPiff (@DatPiff) February 22, 2023
Read part of the judge’s ruling below:
Contrary to appellant’s claim, the record here affirmatively shows the trial court fully understood and properly exercised its discretion when it declined to dismiss the firearm enhancement,” the three-judge panel ruled. “Highlighting the evidence that appellant used not one, but two guns in his violent attack which killed [Nipsey] and wounded [Kerry] Lathan and [Shermi] Villanueva, the court declared its finding ‘by clear and convincing evidence’ that dismissal of any enhancements in this case ‘would endanger public safety’ … The court emphasized its responsibility to consider and evaluate the mitigation evidence presented by the defense, particularly the evidence of appellant’s history of mental illness, and it indicated that the sentence it was about to pronounce balanced appellant’s mitigating evidence with the devastation appellant had caused to the victims and their families.
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