A Florida judge dismissed evidence tampering charges against Kodak Black on Wednesday (April 17). The judge’s ruling allows the 26-year-old rapper to put the drug case behind him when he is released from prison in February.
“The undisputed material fact in this case is that the substance was not destroyed,” Judge Barbara Duffy wrote. “The State agrees that the substance was on defendant’s mouth and on the ground near defendant’s body. More importantly, the State expressly admitted in its Traverse that defendant “attempted to ingest the substance in his possession to avoid the substance.” [being] “Discovered at the scene”…the substances involved in this case have not been destroyed. Officers retrieved substances on and around the defendant and entered them into evidence. Based on the State’s best evidence, defendant attempted without success to alter or destroy evidence.
Kodak, whose real name is Bill Kapri, was arrested in December 2023 for cocaine possession and tampering with evidence.
Kodak’s attorney, Bradford Cohen, maintains that his client had a prescription for oxycodone and was therefore wrongly charged. Judge Duffy agreed and in February dismissed the drug possession charge. On Wednesday, Cohen reacted to the case being dismissed outright.
“The second charge of ‘possession of cocaine’ against Kodak has now been dismissed, this is not a cocaine case and should not have been filed or prosecuted by the Broward State Attorney’s Office,” Cohen wrote on Instagram. “We are filing. Having previously shown them his script, they decided to file it anyway…even knowing that the officials’ understanding of the content was wrong and his story changed to make no sense.
Kodak was arrested for drug possession and spent about two months in jail for violating his probation. He admitted failing to report the contact to police and was released.
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