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 a virtually two-decade-old chilly case homicide to clear his conscience.
Coleman has now served 13 of a 15-year-to-life sentence. Together with his sentence being commuted, he’ll now be allowed to hunt parole sooner than his authentic 2025 date.
Gov. Hochul granted 16 people clemency by Hochul in an announcement made Friday. They embody 12 pardons and 4 commutations. It’s the third time Hochul has granted clemency this 12 months.
“By means of the clemency course of, it’s my solemn duty as governor to acknowledge the efforts people have made to enhance their lives and present that redemption is feasible,” Hochul mentioned in a written assertion.
The rapper earned an affiliate’s diploma whereas in jail and facilitated violence prevention and sobriety counseling applications, whereas additionally taking part in a wide range of instructional and rehabilitative courses, the Govenor’s workplace mentioned. His clemency software 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 “Particular Supply” and “Let’s Get It.” He was one of many rising stars of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Unhealthy Boy Information label within the late Nineties and early 2000s.
Lawyer Anthony L. Ricco mentioned 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 an adolescent throughout a theft in East Harlem. The sufferer was shot thrice within the chest exterior an house advanced.
