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Migos rapper Offset was in jail for about eight months before his release on December 4. While in the bing, he read his Bible and had to cop a plea to get his freedom and avoid extensive jail time. 

Reports local Atlanta new stations WSBTV:

Offset spoke at length about his time in jail in an exclusive interview with Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne.

“It was like a slap in the face and I didn’t understand where it came from or why I had to do it. (It was) something I had to go through with me and God, though,” he said. “I had to sit down to see my opportunity so I can take advantage of it to the most that I can.”

Findling and Assistant District Attorney Barclay Black agree on this much about the background of the case: Migos played a concert at Georgia Southern University in April. During the show, police searched two vehicles that had carried the band and 13 in its entourage. The search turned up less than an ounce of marijuana, a bottle of “lean,” a street concoction containing codeine, and several guns. Police arrested all 16 people.

It seems like the prosecution was out to railroad offset—while cursing out a judge and being involved in a jail fight didn’t help his cause. However, during a hearing on Dec. 4, the judge ordered the lawyers to resolve the case, without going to trial.

Offset faced nine counts: violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act, possession of a firearm during commission of a felony, carrying weapons within certain school areas, possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, possession of a firearm by convicted felon, two counts of violation of the street gang terrorism and prevention act, riot in a penal institution and battery.

But, as a hearing in the case got underway on Dec. 4th, Ogeechee Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge John R. Turner seemed to send a clear message to both sides that he believed the case should be resolved without a trial. He gave the two sides time to meet before reconvening.

Black said Offset’s guilty plea to riot in penal institution—over an incident in which he kicked a fellow inmate in the head—means that all other charges against him in Bulloch County are dropped. Findling said it was an “Alford” plea, meaning that Offset did not admit that he did it, but he acknowledged that there is sufficient evidence in the case to find him guilty.

“If I didn’t take the plea, then it wouldn’t be handled and I would be sitting in jail right now,” Offset told Winne days after the hearing.

When all was said and done, Offset got five years of probation, a $1,000 fine, and according to the judge, bas been “banished from the Ogeechee circuit. That’s Bulloch, Effingham, Screven and Jenkins counties.”

That shouldn’t be a problem. See more of the Offset interview on the flip.

Photo: screen cap

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