Prosecutor wants four years in prison for Raphy Pina

Prosecutor wants four years in prison for Raphy Pina

Federal prosecutors asked the court to impose a sentence of around four years in prison for the accused Puerto Rican producer Raphy Pina Nieves illegal gun ownership.

will be that April 18th that the fiancé of Dominican artist Natti Natasha know your sentence before Judge Francisco Besosa.

According to the Puerto Rican media outlet El Nuevo Día, federal prosecutors are María Montañez, José Ruiz and Gregory Conner they proposed a sentence of four years imprisonment in an extensive 35-page application with sharp remarks on the behavior of the producer.

They also noted that while the report submitted by the United States Probation Office included a calculation of 33 to 41 months in prison, prosecutors presented arguments to “recommend a sentence within the variant penalty range of 46 to 50 months in prison.”

They emphasized that “the aggravating circumstances of the Pina Nieves case require an upward variation,” there He was a condemned person at the time he was charged in that case, and that “clearly failed to deter further crime‘ the outlet reported.

Last December, a jury found the well-known music producer guilty of illegal gun possession in a high-profile case on the island, the verdict of which will be announced on April 1, 2022.

The producer, president of the record label Pina Records, has represented some of the most important artists in the urban genre, including Nicky Jam, Daddy Yankee and Don Omar.

The jury that analyzed his case in federal court in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, consisted of seven women and five men.

The fees are illegal possession of an illegally modified firearm and possession of a firearm by a federal convict, as the maker was convicted of bank fraud in 2015.

For each of these allegations, Pina faces up to ten years in prison.

The producer remained under the home confinement program and can only go out and appear in court for medical, religious or medical matters, which was scheduled for next April 1 but was pushed back to the 18th of this month on Tuesday.

Last Tuesday, March 29, the public prosecutor’s office rejected Pina Nieves’ application stay free on bail While managing his case in the Court of Appeals for the First Federal Circuit in Boston, he edited the newspaper El Nuevo Día.

The prosecution’s motion argues that Pina Nieves “nor shown by clear evidence and convincingly that you are not likely to flee or pose a danger to others or a risk of fleeing and that your complaint raises a material issue of law or fact which is likely to result in, among other things, an annulment or a new trial. Therefore, the defendant’s request for release should be denied pending appeal.”

However, he acknowledges that Pina Nieves has so far met all the bail conditions imposed since his arrest in August 2020.