Lil Boosie sentenced to eight years for drug smuggling
Lil Boosie has been sentenced to serve eight years in jail for attemting to smuggle drugs into prison on three seperate occassions.
The hip-hop star, real name Torrence Hatch, confessed to three counts of conspiring to obtain codeine syrup while serving time for a previous drug and gun possession charge at Louisiana's Dixon Correctional Center and Angola State Penitentiary.
Boosie, 29, appeared in court on Tuesday and asked the judge to send him to a rehab facility to overcome his addictions. The court official instead ruled he recommended treatment as part of his sentence.
And the rapper's legal woes won't end there as he is due to stand trial for a first degree murder charge in March, following the death of Terry Boyd in October, 2009. Boosie is accused of hiring hitmen to kill the 35-year-old.
The embattled star faces the death penality if found guilty.