As southern rapper Lil’ Boosie is on 23-hour lock down, his team is working hard behind the scenes to free him. Boosie’s lawyer, Martin Regan, recently spoke to On WAX Magazine about the rapper’s well being and gave updates.
“There’s an individual that’s claimed that Torence Hatch is the person that sent him, hired him to go and kill somebody. It’s my appreciation that this individual has, at this point, withdrawn that statement and simply admitted that this isn’t true,” Regan said. “This particular fellow that we’re dealing with has killed three or four people.”
It’s alleged that Lil’ Boosie hired teenager Michael “Marlo Mike” Louding to do the killings. Boosie, 28, — real name Torence Hatch — is in Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola facing a first-degree murder charge stemming from the October 2009 murder of Terry Boyd.
There were reports that Lil’ Boosie may face the death penalty.
“He’s doing fine. He’s very upbeat. He feels that he will definitely get cleared,” said Regan on his way to New Orleans. “Based on my investigation and what I see, we’re out of the death penalty. We’re not looking at the death penalty since I got on this case.”
Regan joined the case with Jason Williams in July.
“At this point, we’re going to have a very mixed group of citizens sitting on the case, which I’m very pleased with. Based on our evidence and our witnesses, I think our chances are extremely good that he’s going to be found not guilty in the murder case,” Regan said.
Pretrial motions will start at the end of November, Regan said. Pretrial motions are motions that are made before the actual trial. A lawyer may move to suppress evidence, allow or not allow certain witnesses, or ask for a complete dismissal of the charges. If dismissal is not granted, a trial date will be set.
Hash tags aren’t dollar signs
A number of fans have taken to the social media streets by creating Twitter hash tags such as #freeboosie or have joined the rapper’s Facebook page. While this is a good show of support, Boosie’s move for freedom isn’t free.
The Lil’ Boosie Defense Fund has been seeking funds to pay his lawyers since the rapper went into prison. According to www.boosiejustice.com, a website created by close friends and family, sales of T-shirts, hoodies and music available at www.boosiegear.com go towards an estimated $250,000 in attorney fees.
“We’ve been selling T-shirts and things. It was doing well until he got the other charge… the contraband charge, things kind of slowed down,” said Andre Wright, who works with Boosiejustice.com. “They sold over like $10,000 worth of T-shirts. We’ve been working with Yo Gotti and Jeezy; they are two of Boosie’s closest friends and they’re going to help out with the lawyer fees and everything… We’re going to try to put the word out to other major artists because really no one knows the situation.”
Wright said they are trying to do other things to raise funds.
“We’ve recovered some of his music (from the district attorney, whose office took a hard drive) and the first offer we had for the music, someone offered $25,000 for a feature. We’re working to get that finalized. We recovered some of those files… not all of them.”
When the story “Connie Hatch: The truth about Lil’ Boosie” was reported by On WAX, Connie Hatch, Boosie’s mother, said Young Jeezy was the only rapper to come to her aid. Since then, Young Jeezy and fellow rapper Yo Gotti reached out to Lil’ Boosie’s mother. Both rappers’ assistants spoke on their behalf and said financial support is on the way.
“I reached out to Ms. Connie and I let her know the situation,” said Carbon 15, Young Jeezy’s assistant. “We talked a couple of times. She gave me a contact to the lawyer. I talked to the lawyer and he told me what’s going on. Jeezy told him he’s willing to help. They got a nice lil’ bill left over and I think if not, a few months, he’s going to take care of the bill in a couple of months. We’re actually about to send out the first payment this month.”
The pair recorded some songs before Boosie went into prison.
“We’re about to drop those right now,” said Carbon 15. “(We’re) just waiting on these couple of files to come back on Boosie’s end and we’re about to mix them and put them up there. We’re going to let his name live until he can get back out here.”
Lil’ Boosie’s oldest daughter, Iviona, made a song for her father and she’s selling it to get money for his defense fund as well.
Yo Gotti called and wanted Connie Hatch to come to New Orleans a few weeks ago to meet.
“We’ve been pretty hands on with the situation. We tried to get added to the visitation list. They said family only. Basically, we’ve been talking to the lawyers,” said B. Mimms, who is a part of Yo Gotti’s management team. “We’re helping with the financial part of taking care of the lawyers. We were supposed to go visit Ms. Hatch last week, but the tropical storm happened.”
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Boosie you are the TRUTH COME HOME BIG BRUH
Boosie is a real nigga in i hope and pray God See Him Through
Chis Taylor A.K.A. Mr.MemPhTucKy
LIL BOOSIE DIDNT DO THAT SHIT ITS JUST THAT HE DOING SO GOOD THEY PEOPLE WANT 2 BRING HIM DOWN TERRY BOYD COULD OF FUCKED PEOPLE AROUND NIGGAS GRIMMEY IKNOW THAT WHAT BOOSIE NEED 2 DO WHEN HE GET IS MOVE CAUSE DOIN 2 DAMN GOOD 2 BE BLAMED 4 SOME BULLSHIT KEEP UR HEAD UP YOU’LL BE OUT THEY CANT HOLD A REAL NIGGA
I am a cousin of Torrence Hatch and the support that me and my family recieve from fans and supporters is greatly appreciated. Young Jeezy and Yo Gotti you guys are the true definition of a friend in deed. Torrence kids look up to you guys and you all are showing a great deal of support for their father. Boosie was a person whom loved his family, community, and fellow rap colleauges. He was never the type to let anyone down he would give a person his last just to see a smile on their face. His day was not complete until he made someone else’s day. Torrence gave back to his community in a variety of ways and even helped others on a personal level. Like during Katrina Boosie fed families that no one was aware of until I ran into a white lady from New Orleans in the store and she seen me with a Boosie is Innocent shirt on and said baby I will never forget that child during Katrina me and my family had to evacuate New Orleans and we ran across Lil Boosie not knowing who he was and he reahced out and helped me and my family. The elderly lady stated that Torrence had given her and her family a place to stay at a local hotel, provided food, and clothing something that I had never heard about. So allot of people are judging him off of the negativity of the media but are not looking at the positive examples that Torrence has set and what he has done for others. He comes from a praying family and we all make some type of mistakes in life. No one is perfect because if we were there would be no need for grace and mercy. Deep down inside I truely believe that my cousin is INNOCENT despite of what others may say or think. He has never done anything to harm anyone. If his lyrics and the things he rap about is an offense to anyone then there should be allot of rappers convicted becuase of what they say. But GOD has the last say so.
man i would love to see boosie get out of prison he’s a true role modle and i hope the judge see the good in him and not just the bad. Man its people in detroit that realy do pray to see him get out of jail i know he’s a good person because thers not one song he sung that did not mention god . He’s helped families in new orleans gave bikes to the kids in the community now it cant get no better than that. and this is a reply from dontell seals
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