Drake‘s armed guards allegedly refused a subpoena issued to the rapper in relation to the homicide of XXXtentacion.
In response to the Miami Herald, Mauricio Padilla, lawyer for Dedrick Williams, one of many three males accused of murdering XXXTentacion, issued a movement final week requiring Drake (actual title Aubrey Graham) to ship a deposition later this month.
Padilla alleged that when an try was made to ship the subpoena outdoors Drake’s California dwelling on February 14, guards not solely closed the gates within the face of the servers, but in addition kicked the subpoena down the driveway.
The defence lawyer’s submitting additionally included transcribed audio of the dialog stated to have taken place between the method servers and Graham’s guards, reviews Rolling Stone.
In response to the audio, safety repeatedly allegedly insisted the method servers needed to get off Graham’s property and maintained that they have been neither anticipating any deliveries, nor authorised to simply accept something.
In making an attempt to plead their case, one of many course of server’s allegedly informed the guards: “It is just a subpoena for a digital deposition, it’s not even like a lawsuit bro.”
After one ultimate try and serve Graham, one of many course of server’s apparently stated: “By the way in which, I like Drake.” To which the guard replied, “I’m not accepting something.”
Together with making an attempt to serve Drake, Padilla claimed a subpoena was additionally served to his lawyer Bradford Cohen, asking if he would “settle for service on behalf of” the rapper which Cohen allegedly refused.
In a submitting by Cohen yesterday (February 20), he insisted that the subpoena delivered to Drake’s home was not correctly served in compliance with California legislation, arguing that not solely was he not authorised to simply accept service, however neither have been the guards.
Cohen, additionally tried to get the court docket to strike an order to indicate trigger requiring Drake to sit down for a deposition.
Whereas prosecutors have by no means claimed that Drake was implicated in XXXtentacion’s 2018 demise, Padila beforehand tabled Drake’s alleged involvement in its place principle to the killing.
He cited an alleged feud between Drake and XXXtentacion (actual title Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy) relationship again to 2018. In his opening arguments on February 7, Padilla referenced a social media submit from Onfroy that learn, “If anybody tries to kill me it was [Drake]. I’m snitching proper now.”
Onfroy later deleted the submit and informed his followers not “to [entertain] that bullshit on Twitter.” The rapper stated the submit was a part of an obvious hack. Elsewhere, in court docket filings submitted final December (by way of Billboard), Padilla referenced Drake’s 2017 music ‘KMT’, which Onfroy believed was stolen from him, based on the court docket filings.
Drake’s attorneys first tried to quash the subpoena effort final week. However the decide dominated he would nonetheless should partake in some trend, setting a date for this Friday (February 24).
Onfroy was killed in a taking pictures on the age of 20 as he left a automotive dealership in Miami, Florida in June of 2018.