{"id":973692,"date":"2019-11-23T07:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T14:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=917299"},"modified":"2019-11-23T07:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T14:05:49","slug":"eric-b-avoids-prison-sentence-following-arrest-on-2002-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/eric-b-avoids-prison-sentence-following-arrest-on-2002-warrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric B. Avoids Prison Sentence Following Arrest on 2002 Warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hip-hop legend Eric B. avoided additional jail time after he was arrested in October on an 17-year-old outstanding warrant, with a judge instead sentencing the producer to probation Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The DJ born Eric Barrier spent two weeks in jail earlier this month after he was arrested<\/a> at the U.S.\/Canada border. The warrant stemmed from his failure to show up to a 2002 sentencing in New Jersey that followed his pleading guilty to eluding arrest and aggravated assault; at the sentencing, Barrier was given a year-long prison term, which was never completed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The issue in 2002, as Barrier\u2019s lawyer Patrick Toscano explained, was Eric B.\u2019s legal representation at the time: Paul Bergrin, once dubbed \u201cThe Baddest Lawyer in the History of Jersey\u201d and someone who is currently serving a life sentence behind bars following his conviction on a litany of charges including murder, the New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was Bergrin who told Eric B. in 2002 that the DJ did not need to show up for sentencing, resulting in the 17-year-old outstanding warrant. \u201cWhen Mr. Barrier asked if he was sure of that,\u201d Toscano wrote to the judge, \u201cMr. Bergrin advised him that he definitely did not need to appear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the guilty plea itself, Toscano wrote \u201cIt is evident that Mr. Bergrin\u2019s counsel to Mr. Barrier was flawed, fraudulent, unethical and deceptive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Prosecutors argued that Barrier should still serve his initially agreed-upon 364-day prison sentence stemming from the 2001 incident, which the rapper apologized for. The judge instead opted for a year of probation, with 90 days in jail a possibility if Eric B. violates the law during that period.<\/span><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> notes that, after the court date, Eric B. left the New Jersey courthouse and headed to his latest Eric B. & Rakim<\/a> reunion concert Friday night in Wilmington, Delaware. \u201cI\u2019m glad it\u2019s over,\u201d Eric B. told the press as he departed, the Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hip-hop legend Eric B. avoided additional jail time after he was arrested in October on an 17-year-old outstanding warrant, with a judge instead sentencing the producer to probation Friday. The DJ born Eric Barrier spent two weeks in jail earlier this month after he was arrested at the U.S.\/Canada border. The warrant stemmed from his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 23:55:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}