Patrick Clark should stay below home arrest and put on a GPS monitoring machine forward of the homicide trial
Patrick Clark, the man accused of murdering Migos rapper Takeoff, was launched from jail Wednesday after posting a $1 million bond.
Throughout a Dec. 28 listening to, Clark’s authorized staff argued towards the “extreme” bail, which was decreased to $1 million after an preliminary $2 million was first ordered; the decide within the case denied an extra discount to $300,000.
Whereas Clark’s legal professionals – who stated their shopper couldn’t afford the bail – may have appealed the quantity once more, KHOU studies that Clark as an alternative posted the $1 million bond, securing his launch from Harris County Jail till his homicide trial begins.
TMZ provides that, as a part of his bail situations, Clark should stay below home arrest and put on a GPS monitoring machine, in addition to not have any communication with anybody concerned within the homicide, together with Takeoff’s household and Houston-based music exec J Prince.
The 33-year-old Clark has pleaded not responsible to the homicide expenses towards him. A part of the explanation the decide initially handed down the big $2 million bond is that, on the time of his arrest, prosecutors believed that Clark was making an attempt to depart for Mexico after getting an expedited passport and buying a “great amount” of cash. Nevertheless, Clark’s lawyer Letitia Quinones stated her shopper “wasn’t attempting to go wherever.”
Clark was arrested based mostly on reviewed video proof of the Nov. 1, 2022, capturing outdoors a Houston bowling alley that confirmed he was the one particular person whose bodily positioning aligned with the angle at which Takeoff was struck earlier than collapsing to the bottom. Clark was holding a wine bottle on the time of the incident and left it on the crime scene, which allowed authorities to match his fingerprints.