From the “Hip-Hop Police” to YSL, O-Block, Casanova, Kay Flock, Sean Combs and Lil Durk, prosecutors increasingly describe rap crews, labels and friendships as criminal enterprises. The evidence—and the verdicts—tell a more complicated story.
By The Streamline Editorial Desk | Updated September 17, 2026
Hip-hop has been on trial for much longer than Young Thug sat inside a Fulton County courtroom.
It was on trial when reporters and investigators treated the murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace as evidence of an entire culture’s criminality. It was on trial when record labels hired armed security, police departments cataloged rappers’ affiliations and investigators followed artists from clubs to concerts.
It was on trial when 50 Cent transformed being shot nine times into mythology, marketing and the haunting survival anthem “Many Men.” The song sounded cinematic because the underlying danger was real. That did not make every subsequent lyric a confession.
Today, the courtroom language has changed. The prosecution may no longer say simply that an artist committed a particular crime. It may say the artist, record label, neighborhood crew and circle of friends constitute an “enterprise.”
That is where RICO enters the record.
The central question is not whether famous rappers can commit crimes. Wealth, talent and cultural importance do not create immunity. Some cases discussed below produced guilty pleas, convictions and substantial evidence of shootings, drug trafficking or other violence.
The harder question is whether law enforcement sometimes takes a real crime, adds a performer’s lyrics and associations, and constructs an enterprise broader than the evidence can sustain.
What RICO actually means
Congress enacted the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in 1970 to attack organized crime’s use of otherwise legitimate organizations. RICO focuses on an enterprise, a pattern of racketeering activity and a defendant’s relationship to that pattern.
Federal law generally requires at least two qualifying racketeering acts, but two alleged acts alone do not automatically prove a RICO violation. The acts must be related and demonstrate or threaten continued criminal activity. Read the Justice Department’s RICO guidance and its explanation of a racketeering pattern.
For prosecutors, RICO can combine years of alleged crimes, many defendants and different roles into one narrative. It can also support forfeiture, lengthy sentences and enormous plea pressure. A defendant who believes he did not personally commit a murder may still face exposure if prosecutors claim the killing advanced an enterprise he knowingly joined.
The major hip-hop RICO ledger
6ix9ine/Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods: Daniel Hernandez pleaded guilty to federal racketeering, firearms and other charges, cooperated with prosecutors and received a two-year sentence in 2019.
Casanova/Gorilla Stone: Caswell Senior pleaded guilty to racketeering and narcotics offenses and received 188 months in 2023.
YSL/Young Thug: Jeffery Williams entered guilty and no-contest pleas in October 2024. His prison portion was commuted to time served, followed by 15 years’ probation and a suspended backloaded term.
Gunna/YSL: Sergio Kitchens entered an Alford plea in 2022, accepting a conviction while maintaining he was not admitting the prosecution’s factual narrative.
YFN Lucci: Rayshawn Bennett was initially charged under Georgia RICO but pleaded guilty to one gang-law count in 2024. Prosecutors dismissed the murder and RICO charges.
Hoodrich Pablo Juan: Sterling Pennix pleaded guilty to a Georgia RICO count connected to the Rollin’ 20 Neighborhood Bloods case.
O-Block/FBG Duck: Six defendants were convicted in 2024 of federal racketeering-related offenses connected to the murder of Carlton “FBG Duck” Weekly. Read the official federal conviction announcement.
Kay Flock/Sev Side-DOA: Kevin Perez was convicted of racketeering conspiracy, attempted murder and a firearm offense, but acquitted of murder. He received 30 years in December 2025. Read the official sentencing report.
Sean “Diddy” Combs: A jury acquitted Combs of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking in July 2025. It convicted him on two transportation-for-prostitution counts. He received 50 months in October 2025.
Lil Durk/OTF: Durk was acquitted in September 2026 in the California murder-for-hire prosecution. He remains accused in a separate racketeering, murder and firearms case. Those pending allegations remain unproven.
These outcomes cannot honestly be collapsed into one headline. Casanova pleaded guilty. Kay Flock was convicted of racketeering but acquitted of murder. Combs was acquitted of RICO. YFN Lucci’s RICO charge was dismissed. Durk was acquitted in one case and remains presumed innocent in the other.
The Young Thug case changed the conversation
The YSL prosecution became the defining modern example of hip-hop on trial because it placed the meaning of a record label, neighborhood identity and artistic language at the center of a sprawling criminal proceeding.
Fulton County prosecutors alleged that YSL meant “Young Slime Life” and operated as a criminal street gang responsible for violence, drugs, theft and intimidation. The defense maintained that Young Stoner Life was a legitimate music organization and that prosecutors were treating lyrics, branding and friendships as evidence of an enterprise.
The case contained allegations extending far beyond music. But prosecutors also quoted lyrics and treated public performances, hand signs and social associations as parts of the larger narrative.
After an extraordinarily long and disorderly trial, Williams entered a non-negotiated plea in October 2024. The sentence allowed him to leave custody but placed him under extensive probation conditions. The result demonstrated RICO’s leverage: years of potential exposure can make a restrictive plea rational even when major factual disputes remain.
Lil Durk: the importance of saying “not guilty”
Lil Durk’s case illustrates why coverage must follow verdicts instead of repeating indictment language.
Federal prosecutors alleged that members of Only the Family participated in a retaliatory 2022 attack intended for rapper Quando Rondo. Rondo survived, but his cousin Saviay’a Robinson was killed. Durk denied ordering the attack.
On September 11, 2026, a federal jury acquitted him of every count in that murder-for-hire trial. That acquittal does not erase Robinson’s death. It establishes that prosecutors did not prove Durk’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in that proceeding. Read the Reuters verdict report and the Associated Press report.
Durk still faces a separate racketeering prosecution. Every allegation in that pending case must remain labeled as an allegation unless proved at trial or admitted in a plea.
Kay Flock: conviction and acquittal in the same courtroom
A jury convicted Kay Flock of racketeering conspiracy, attempted murder and discharging a firearm. It acquitted him of the charged murder. He received a 30-year federal sentence.
The verdict shows a jury accepting part of the government’s enterprise theory while rejecting its most serious accusation. That is not proof that the government invented the entire case. It is also not permission to repeat the rejected murder charge as though it became fact.
Casanova and the reality RICO critics cannot ignore
Casanova’s case contained admissions and evidence that cannot fairly be reduced to a war on lyrics.
He pleaded guilty to racketeering and narcotics offenses connected to Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation. According to the Justice Department, he admitted participating in a Florida shooting, a New York robbery and a marijuana-trafficking conspiracy. He received 188 months.
Read the Casanova sentencing report and the broader Gorilla Stone case summary.
This prevents the analysis from becoming dishonest. Sometimes a rapper’s industry status exists alongside substantial evidence of criminal participation. The answer to overreach cannot be pretending there are no real crimes.
Sean Combs and the RICO theory the jury rejected
The government charged Sean Combs with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Prosecutors described employees, security personnel and business resources as parts of an enterprise that facilitated abuse and sexual activity.
The jury acquitted him of racketeering and sex trafficking. It convicted him of two prostitution-related transportation charges. He was sentenced to 50 months. Read Reuters’ verdict analysis and its sentencing report.
It is true that Combs sued Diageo in 2023, alleging racial discrimination. That dispute settled in January 2024. Federal agents raided his properties in March 2024, and prosecutors indicted him that September. The sequence invites suspicion, but chronology is not proof of retaliation. No public evidence reviewed for this article establishes that the prosecution was initiated because Combs sued Diageo.
The “Hip-Hop Police” were not entirely imaginary
For years, artists spoke about specialized officers who attended concerts, tracked entourages and shared intelligence about rappers.
Retired NYPD detective Derrick Parker has publicly described leading a specialized intelligence operation beginning around 1999 that focused on crime associated with the rap industry. “Hip-Hop Police” was a popular label rather than necessarily its formal departmental name. Read The New Yorker’s profile of Parker and the operation.
There is also abundant evidence of formal federal-local cooperation. The Casanova/Gorilla Stone investigation involved an FBI Safe Streets Task Force containing the FBI, NYPD, state police, corrections officials, county agencies and numerous local departments.
Large Bronx gang takedowns have similarly involved the NYPD, FBI, HSI, DEA and ATF. See the Justice Department’s account of the 2016 Bronx operation.
That proves coordinated law enforcement. It does not prove a secret federal program created specifically to destroy hip-hop. The supported conclusion is narrower: once an artist’s circle is classified as a gang or enterprise, task-force structures allow local intelligence to enter federal prosecutions carrying greater resources and penalties.
When does a label become an enterprise?
Hip-hop businesses often grow from relationships that existed before the company. A successful artist may employ childhood friends as security, drivers, assistants, managers or informal problem-solvers. Some may have criminal histories. Some may still participate in street conflicts. Others may simply be present.
That creates three overlapping groups: a legitimate company, a social circle built before fame and individuals who may commit crimes independently or together.
RICO allows prosecutors to argue that the overlap is not accidental—that the company, reputation and street organization operate as one enterprise. Sometimes evidence supports that conclusion. Sometimes the government appears to work backward: a rapper is famous, several associates are accused of crimes, and the brand becomes the string tying every event together.
Association is evidence of association. It is not automatically proof of agreement.
Why lyrics are unusually dangerous evidence
Rap rewards first-person storytelling, exaggeration, menace, competitive boasting and claims of authenticity. An artist may combine personal experience, neighborhood stories, borrowed details and fiction within the same verse.
“The song sounds better than the truth” is not merely a defense argument. It is part of commercial music.
Audiences accept that actors, novelists and country singers inhabit characters. Rap artists are more frequently expected to prove that every threat is autobiography—and then punished when prosecutors make the same assumption.
California responded by enacting the Decriminalizing Artistic Expression Act, requiring closer scrutiny before creative expression can be used in criminal proceedings. Review California AB 2799 and this analysis of prejudice associated with rap evidence.
Lyrics should not receive absolute immunity. A recording containing nonpublic facts about a crime, tied to timing, communications or physical evidence, may be relevant. But a general lyric about guns, retaliation or wealth should not substitute for proof that the artist committed a specific act.
Is the government dismantling Black power?
Hip-hop has created Black millionaires, employers, intellectual-property owners and cultural institutions outside traditional corporate permission structures. That matters.
American law enforcement has a documented history of surveilling Black political and cultural organizations. It would be naïve to pretend race, wealth and institutional power never influence which people appear threatening.
It would be equally irresponsible to declare every prosecution part of one coordinated campaign without evidence.
The record supports four conclusions at once:
- Some artists and associates committed serious crimes supported by evidence or admissions.
- Some prosecutions stretched an enterprise theory beyond what juries ultimately accepted.
- Rap lyrics and imagery can activate racial and cultural prejudice.
- Federal-local task forces create real, documented surveillance and prosecution networks.
The evidence does not currently prove that every rapper RICO case is directed by one program designed to eliminate Black wealth. The more defensible warning is that a legal tool built for enterprises becomes especially dangerous when applied to a culture in which business, neighborhood identity, friendship and performance are deliberately intertwined.
Cops and robbers—or something larger?
There are victims whose deaths cannot be reduced to culture-war talking points. There are defendants whose acquittals cannot be reduced to technicalities. There are artists who used criminal credibility to sell records, and prosecutors who used recorded fiction to establish criminal credibility.
The proper standard is not “leave rappers alone.” It is: prove the individual act; prove knowing participation; separate companies from gangs; separate friendships from conspiracies; treat lyrics as art unless independently connected to facts; report acquittals as prominently as indictments; and never confuse an allegation with a verdict.
Hip-hop should not be above the law. It should not be beneath the protections of the law, either.
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Editorial note: Charges and indictments are allegations. Defendants are presumed innocent unless convicted or they enter a guilty plea. This article distinguishes allegations, pleas, convictions, acquittals and dismissed counts.
Listen: Hip-Hop on Trial
The Indie Stream companion playlist features three records from each major artist examined in this report—music that reflects the public image, street narratives, survival, ambition and cultural power surrounding these cases.
Editorial note: Inclusion does not imply guilt, endorse alleged conduct or suggest that lyrics are literal autobiography. The playlist is cultural context—not evidence.
From the “Hip-Hop Police” to YSL, O-Block, Casanova, Kay Flock, Sean Combs and Lil Durk, prosecutors increasingly describe rap crews, labels and friendships as criminal enterprises. The evidence—and the verdicts—tell a more complicated story.
By The Streamline Editorial Desk | Updated September 17, 2026
Hip-hop has been on trial for much longer than Young Thug sat inside a Fulton County courtroom.
It was on trial when reporters and investigators treated the murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace as evidence of an entire culture’s criminality. It was on trial when record labels hired armed security, police departments cataloged rappers’ affiliations and investigators followed artists from clubs to concerts.
It was on trial when 50 Cent transformed being shot nine times into mythology, marketing and the haunting survival anthem “Many Men.” The song sounded cinematic because the underlying danger was real. That did not make every subsequent lyric a confession.
Today, the courtroom language has changed. The prosecution may no longer say simply that an artist committed a particular crime. It may say the artist, record label, neighborhood crew and circle of friends constitute an “enterprise.”
That is where RICO enters the record.
The central question is not whether famous rappers can commit crimes. Wealth, talent and cultural importance do not create immunity. Some cases discussed below produced guilty pleas, convictions and substantial evidence of shootings, drug trafficking or other violence.
The harder question is whether law enforcement sometimes takes a real crime, adds a performer’s lyrics and associations, and constructs an enterprise broader than the evidence can sustain.
What RICO actually means
Congress enacted the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in 1970 to attack organized crime’s use of otherwise legitimate organizations. RICO focuses on an enterprise, a pattern of racketeering activity and a defendant’s relationship to that pattern.
Federal law generally requires at least two qualifying racketeering acts, but two alleged acts alone do not automatically prove a RICO violation. The acts must be related and demonstrate or threaten continued criminal activity. Read the Justice Department’s RICO guidance and its explanation of a racketeering pattern.
For prosecutors, RICO can combine years of alleged crimes, many defendants and different roles into one narrative. It can also support forfeiture, lengthy sentences and enormous plea pressure. A defendant who believes he did not personally commit a murder may still face exposure if prosecutors claim the killing advanced an enterprise he knowingly joined.
The major hip-hop RICO ledger
6ix9ine/Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods: Daniel Hernandez pleaded guilty to federal racketeering, firearms and other charges, cooperated with prosecutors and received a two-year sentence in 2019.
Casanova/Gorilla Stone: Caswell Senior pleaded guilty to racketeering and narcotics offenses and received 188 months in 2023.
YSL/Young Thug: Jeffery Williams entered guilty and no-contest pleas in October 2024. His prison portion was commuted to time served, followed by 15 years’ probation and a suspended backloaded term.
Gunna/YSL: Sergio Kitchens entered an Alford plea in 2022, accepting a conviction while maintaining he was not admitting the prosecution’s factual narrative.
YFN Lucci: Rayshawn Bennett was initially charged under Georgia RICO but pleaded guilty to one gang-law count in 2024. Prosecutors dismissed the murder and RICO charges.
Hoodrich Pablo Juan: Sterling Pennix pleaded guilty to a Georgia RICO count connected to the Rollin’ 20 Neighborhood Bloods case.
O-Block/FBG Duck: Six defendants were convicted in 2024 of federal racketeering-related offenses connected to the murder of Carlton “FBG Duck” Weekly. Read the official federal conviction announcement.
Kay Flock/Sev Side-DOA: Kevin Perez was convicted of racketeering conspiracy, attempted murder and a firearm offense, but acquitted of murder. He received 30 years in December 2025. Read the official sentencing report.
Sean “Diddy” Combs: A jury acquitted Combs of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking in July 2025. It convicted him on two transportation-for-prostitution counts. He received 50 months in October 2025.
Lil Durk/OTF: Durk was acquitted in September 2026 in the California murder-for-hire prosecution. He remains accused in a separate racketeering, murder and firearms case. Those pending allegations remain unproven.
These outcomes cannot honestly be collapsed into one headline. Casanova pleaded guilty. Kay Flock was convicted of racketeering but acquitted of murder. Combs was acquitted of RICO. YFN Lucci’s RICO charge was dismissed. Durk was acquitted in one case and remains presumed innocent in the other.
The Young Thug case changed the conversation
The YSL prosecution became the defining modern example of hip-hop on trial because it placed the meaning of a record label, neighborhood identity and artistic language at the center of a sprawling criminal proceeding.
Fulton County prosecutors alleged that YSL meant “Young Slime Life” and operated as a criminal street gang responsible for violence, drugs, theft and intimidation. The defense maintained that Young Stoner Life was a legitimate music organization and that prosecutors were treating lyrics, branding and friendships as evidence of an enterprise.
The case contained allegations extending far beyond music. But prosecutors also quoted lyrics and treated public performances, hand signs and social associations as parts of the larger narrative.
After an extraordinarily long and disorderly trial, Williams entered a non-negotiated plea in October 2024. The sentence allowed him to leave custody but placed him under extensive probation conditions. The result demonstrated RICO’s leverage: years of potential exposure can make a restrictive plea rational even when major factual disputes remain.
Lil Durk: the importance of saying “not guilty”
Lil Durk’s case illustrates why coverage must follow verdicts instead of repeating indictment language.
Federal prosecutors alleged that members of Only the Family participated in a retaliatory 2022 attack intended for rapper Quando Rondo. Rondo survived, but his cousin Saviay’a Robinson was killed. Durk denied ordering the attack.
On September 11, 2026, a federal jury acquitted him of every count in that murder-for-hire trial. That acquittal does not erase Robinson’s death. It establishes that prosecutors did not prove Durk’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in that proceeding. Read the Reuters verdict report and the Associated Press report.
Durk still faces a separate racketeering prosecution. Every allegation in that pending case must remain labeled as an allegation unless proved at trial or admitted in a plea.
Kay Flock: conviction and acquittal in the same courtroom
A jury convicted Kay Flock of racketeering conspiracy, attempted murder and discharging a firearm. It acquitted him of the charged murder. He received a 30-year federal sentence.
The verdict shows a jury accepting part of the government’s enterprise theory while rejecting its most serious accusation. That is not proof that the government invented the entire case. It is also not permission to repeat the rejected murder charge as though it became fact.
Casanova and the reality RICO critics cannot ignore
Casanova’s case contained admissions and evidence that cannot fairly be reduced to a war on lyrics.
He pleaded guilty to racketeering and narcotics offenses connected to Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation. According to the Justice Department, he admitted participating in a Florida shooting, a New York robbery and a marijuana-trafficking conspiracy. He received 188 months.
Read the Casanova sentencing report and the broader Gorilla Stone case summary.
This prevents the analysis from becoming dishonest. Sometimes a rapper’s industry status exists alongside substantial evidence of criminal participation. The answer to overreach cannot be pretending there are no real crimes.
Sean Combs and the RICO theory the jury rejected
The government charged Sean Combs with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Prosecutors described employees, security personnel and business resources as parts of an enterprise that facilitated abuse and sexual activity.
The jury acquitted him of racketeering and sex trafficking. It convicted him of two prostitution-related transportation charges. He was sentenced to 50 months. Read Reuters’ verdict analysis and its sentencing report.
It is true that Combs sued Diageo in 2023, alleging racial discrimination. That dispute settled in January 2024. Federal agents raided his properties in March 2024, and prosecutors indicted him that September. The sequence invites suspicion, but chronology is not proof of retaliation. No public evidence reviewed for this article establishes that the prosecution was initiated because Combs sued Diageo.
The “Hip-Hop Police” were not entirely imaginary
For years, artists spoke about specialized officers who attended concerts, tracked entourages and shared intelligence about rappers.
Retired NYPD detective Derrick Parker has publicly described leading a specialized intelligence operation beginning around 1999 that focused on crime associated with the rap industry. “Hip-Hop Police” was a popular label rather than necessarily its formal departmental name. Read The New Yorker’s profile of Parker and the operation.
There is also abundant evidence of formal federal-local cooperation. The Casanova/Gorilla Stone investigation involved an FBI Safe Streets Task Force containing the FBI, NYPD, state police, corrections officials, county agencies and numerous local departments.
Large Bronx gang takedowns have similarly involved the NYPD, FBI, HSI, DEA and ATF. See the Justice Department’s account of the 2016 Bronx operation.
That proves coordinated law enforcement. It does not prove a secret federal program created specifically to destroy hip-hop. The supported conclusion is narrower: once an artist’s circle is classified as a gang or enterprise, task-force structures allow local intelligence to enter federal prosecutions carrying greater resources and penalties.
When does a label become an enterprise?
Hip-hop businesses often grow from relationships that existed before the company. A successful artist may employ childhood friends as security, drivers, assistants, managers or informal problem-solvers. Some may have criminal histories. Some may still participate in street conflicts. Others may simply be present.
That creates three overlapping groups: a legitimate company, a social circle built before fame and individuals who may commit crimes independently or together.
RICO allows prosecutors to argue that the overlap is not accidental—that the company, reputation and street organization operate as one enterprise. Sometimes evidence supports that conclusion. Sometimes the government appears to work backward: a rapper is famous, several associates are accused of crimes, and the brand becomes the string tying every event together.
Association is evidence of association. It is not automatically proof of agreement.
Why lyrics are unusually dangerous evidence
Rap rewards first-person storytelling, exaggeration, menace, competitive boasting and claims of authenticity. An artist may combine personal experience, neighborhood stories, borrowed details and fiction within the same verse.
“The song sounds better than the truth” is not merely a defense argument. It is part of commercial music.
Audiences accept that actors, novelists and country singers inhabit characters. Rap artists are more frequently expected to prove that every threat is autobiography—and then punished when prosecutors make the same assumption.
California responded by enacting the Decriminalizing Artistic Expression Act, requiring closer scrutiny before creative expression can be used in criminal proceedings. Review California AB 2799 and this analysis of prejudice associated with rap evidence.
Lyrics should not receive absolute immunity. A recording containing nonpublic facts about a crime, tied to timing, communications or physical evidence, may be relevant. But a general lyric about guns, retaliation or wealth should not substitute for proof that the artist committed a specific act.
Is the government dismantling Black power?
Hip-hop has created Black millionaires, employers, intellectual-property owners and cultural institutions outside traditional corporate permission structures. That matters.
American law enforcement has a documented history of surveilling Black political and cultural organizations. It would be naïve to pretend race, wealth and institutional power never influence which people appear threatening.
It would be equally irresponsible to declare every prosecution part of one coordinated campaign without evidence.
The record supports four conclusions at once:
- Some artists and associates committed serious crimes supported by evidence or admissions.
- Some prosecutions stretched an enterprise theory beyond what juries ultimately accepted.
- Rap lyrics and imagery can activate racial and cultural prejudice.
- Federal-local task forces create real, documented surveillance and prosecution networks.
The evidence does not currently prove that every rapper RICO case is directed by one program designed to eliminate Black wealth. The more defensible warning is that a legal tool built for enterprises becomes especially dangerous when applied to a culture in which business, neighborhood identity, friendship and performance are deliberately intertwined.
Cops and robbers—or something larger?
There are victims whose deaths cannot be reduced to culture-war talking points. There are defendants whose acquittals cannot be reduced to technicalities. There are artists who used criminal credibility to sell records, and prosecutors who used recorded fiction to establish criminal credibility.
The proper standard is not “leave rappers alone.” It is: prove the individual act; prove knowing participation; separate companies from gangs; separate friendships from conspiracies; treat lyrics as art unless independently connected to facts; report acquittals as prominently as indictments; and never confuse an allegation with a verdict.
Hip-hop should not be above the law. It should not be beneath the protections of the law, either.
Watch and discuss
Host-video question: What should prosecutors have to prove before a record label or rap collective can be called a criminal enterprise?
JOIN THE CONVERSATION
Should lyrics ever be admissible—or only when they contain independently verified, nonpublic facts about a specific crime?
Comment below and share this investigation.
Artists: Submit your music for Indie Music Spotlight consideration through The Streamline’s submission page.
Businesses: Advertise or sponsor independent coverage by contacting indiestreamradio.us@gmail.com.
Readers: Join The Streamline for new-post alerts and the Weekend Stash. Support independent reporting through the verified support link on this site.
Editorial note: Charges and indictments are allegations. Defendants are presumed innocent unless convicted or they enter a guilty plea. This article distinguishes allegations, pleas, convictions, acquittals and dismissed counts.
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