The bad news came in twos Friday for rapper Gucci Mane, aka Radric Davis, who learned he was being slapped with a civil suit minutes after a DeKalb County judge ruled against his attorney's motion for reduced jail time.
Davis was sentenced to six months in September after pleading guilty to two counts of battery, two counts of reckless conduct and one count of disorderly conduct.
According to the police report, a 36-year-old woman was approached by the rapper in January, asking her if she wanted to grab breakfast. She agreed but alleged once inside Davis' white Hummer she was offered $150 to go to a hotel. She refused, according to the report, and asked to be driven back to South DeKalb Mall. At that point, she alleges, Davis shoved her out of the moving vehicle. She sustained minor injuries.
The woman identified Davis by the ice cream cone tattoo on the rapper's face.
Her attorney, B.J. Bernstein, said Friday Davis needs to be held accountable.
"He thinks the rules don't apply to him," she said.
Davis' attorneys, seeking to get his six-month jail sentence cut in half Friday, offered to have the 31-year-old MC stage a concert on behalf of the DeKalb County Battered Women's Shelter. But DeKalb State Court Judge Eleanor Ross was not moved, saying. "I don't think it would be appropriate to let him out just because he's a rapper."
Before his latest sentencing in DeKalb the oft-arrested musician had served nearly four months in the Fulton County lockup for a host of charges including two felonies -- aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault-- stemming from a 2005 incident in which he pleaded guilty to assault. He was released early and placed on probation but failed to fulfill court-ordered community service or stay out of trouble.
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