NY Rapper G-Dep Granted Clemency By Governor

Rapper Travell “G-Dep” Coleman has been granted clemency by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

In 2010, the rapper walked right into a New York police precinct and admitted to committing an almost two-decade-old chilly case homicide to clear his conscience.

Coleman has now served 13 of a 15-year-to-life sentence. Along with his sentence being commuted, he’ll now be allowed to hunt parole sooner than his unique 2025 date.

Gov. Hochul granted 16 people clemency by Hochul in an announcement made Friday. They embrace 12 pardons and 4 commutations. It’s the third time Hochul has granted clemency this 12 months.

“Through the clemency process, it is my solemn responsibility as governor to recognize the efforts individuals have made to improve their lives and show that redemption is possible,” Hochul stated in a written assertion.

The rapper earned an affiliate’s diploma whereas in jail and facilitated violence prevention and sobriety counseling applications, whereas additionally collaborating in a wide range of instructional and rehabilitative courses, the Govenor’s workplace stated. His clemency utility was additionally supported by the prosecutor in his case and the decide who sentenced him, ABC New reported.

Throughout his rap profession, G-Dep had hits with “Special Delivery” and “Let’s Get It.” He was one of many rising stars of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Dangerous Boy Data label within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s.

Lawyer Anthony L. Ricco stated on the time that Coleman “had been haunted” by the 1993 homicide of John Henkel and stepped as much as confess to capturing somebody as a youngster throughout a theft in East Harlem. The sufferer was shot thrice within the chest exterior an condo advanced.