Kodak Black efficiently satisfied a Florida choose to dismiss a drug cost towards him on Friday (February 9). Based on the Solar Sentinel, Decide Barbara Duffy mentioned prosecutors didn’t “refute or negate the fabric undeniable fact that the defendant had an oxycodone prescription crammed by a pharmacy.”
Bradford Cohen, Kodak Black’s lawyer, reacted to the choose’s determination on Instagram. Cohen posted a photograph of the choose’s order and reiterated his intent to get his shopper out of jail.
“Movement to Dismiss @kodakblack new case for possession of ‘cocaine’ that was truly oxycodone….GRANTED,” Cohen wrote. “I’ll depart that proper right here. We have now moved to have his bond reinstated. With my mates for over 20 years, @skywriter.esq and Fred Haddad.”
Kodak Black nonetheless faces one depend of tampering with bodily proof. Cohen was optimistic a couple of dismissal of the tampering cost.
Final December, Broward County officers arrested Kodak Black after they discovered him asleep on the wheel of a automobile. Officers allegedly found a “white chunky substance” throughout a search and claimed it examined optimistic for cocaine.
Kodak Black was initially booked for cocaine possession, however prosecutors didn’t pursue the cost. Prosecutors as a substitute charged him with possession of oxycodone in January. Cohen filed a movement to dismiss the cost that very same month. The lawyer mentioned his shopper had a prescription for the drug.
“It’s oxycodone that Kodak had a prescription for and never an unlawful substance,” Cohen wrote on social media. “Figuring out that the officer considerably misrepresented his observations, the Broward State Atty Workplace nonetheless filed the cost. Unbelievable and it’ll not be tolerated. This degree of abuse of energy by the arresting officer is disgusting.”
Kodak Black is in federal custody for violating his probation. He stays on probation regardless of former President Donald Trump commuting the Florida-bred rapper’s sentence in a gun case.