{"id":805943,"date":"2020-04-01T13:39:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=976630"},"modified":"2020-04-01T13:39:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:39:23","slug":"tekashi-6ix9ine-could-be-released-from-prison-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/tekashi-6ix9ine-could-be-released-from-prison-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekashi 6ix9ine Could Be Released From Prison Today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After 17 months in federal custody, Daniel \u201cTekashi 6ix9ine<\/a>\u201d Hernandez could be released from prison as early as Wednesday afternoon. His attorney, Lance Lazzaro, filed a motion to release him immediately due to the spread of COVID-19 through the prison system. After a series of appeals to both the judge in the case and the Bureau of Prisons, 6ix9ine could be released as soon as this afternoon, Lazzaro confirmed to Rolling Stone<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The process began last week, when Lazzaro first submitted a motion to release Hernandez, pointing out that Hernandez\u2019 asthma put him at risk from the virus. Judge Paul Engelmayer, who\u2019s presided over the case and gave Hernandez his two-year sentence (including the 13 months he\u2019d already served) following the rapper\u2019s cooperation in his racketeering charge, asserted that he did not have jurisdiction over the matter, and suggested Lazzaro file a motion with the Bureau of Prisons. According to Lazzaro, Engelmayer requested that the Bureau grant the request. <\/span><\/p>\n

That request was initially denied. According to an email from a Bureau of Prisons representative obtained by Inner City Press<\/em>, the bureau does \u201cnot have any authority or oversight of his case as he is not in a BOP facility. If the Court orders a compassionate release for him, that information will be provided to the US Marshals Service and the GEO facility for processing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lazzaro then appealed the decision to Engelmayer. According to Lazzaro, the decision will be made Wednesday or Thursday, and if Hernandez is granted the request, he will likely be released immediately. \u201cBased on what [Engelmayer] wrote this morning, it seems likely he\u2019s going to grant it,\u201d Lazzaro said. Engelmayer, in turn, gave the prosecutors until 5pm EST on Wednesday to make the case for Hernandez to stay in custody.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a letter to Judge Engelmayer obtained by Rolling Stone<\/em>, United States Attorney Geoffrey Berman wrote that \u201cthe Government does not oppose the defendant\u2019s motion for compassionate release,\u201d paving the way for Engelmayer to order Hernandez\u2019s release. \u201cI believe the judge will, at some point, approve my motion for compassionate release,\u201d said Lazzaro. \u201cI don\u2019t want to put words into the judge\u2019s mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a foregone conclusion, he\u2019s getting released\u201d said Dawn Florio, another attorney for Hernandez. \u201cHe could do it today, or later, we\u2019re just waiting on the judge\u2019s decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Hernandez is released, he will serve the remaining four months of his sentence in home confinement. It\u2019s unclear where that would take place. <\/span><\/p>\n

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After 17 months in federal custody, Daniel \u201cTekashi 6ix9ine\u201d Hernandez could be released from prison as early as Wednesday afternoon. His attorney, Lance Lazzaro, filed a motion to release him immediately due to the spread of COVID-19 through the prison system. After a series of appeals to both the judge in the case and the […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 13:50:45","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}