Musicrooms.net: Ja Rule Can't Bail Associates

Ja Rule Can't Bail Associates
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CMU on 28 February, 2008
 
Ja, real name Jeffrey Atkins, paid his own $150,000 bond after his arrest, and
also the combined $170,000 demanded for the bail of his driver Mohamed Gamal and
road manager Dennis Cherry. The bail payments are secured on his $3.5 million
New Jersey home.
But State Supreme Court Justice Micki Scherer said yesterday that Atkins
couldn't pay for his associates' bonds, I think because he thinks that it gives
the hip hop star too much influence over his associates, who may not, as a
result, testify honestly against their boss when the case goes to court. Scherer
said the current bail payment situation put Atkins "in the position of perhaps
controlling the outcome of the case". Attorney Stacey Richman, who represents
all three men, has said they are making other arrangements for the payment of
Gamal and Cherry's bonds.
Elsewhere in the case, prosecutors have asked the court to order each defendant
to give DNA samples so they can garner information that might help them identify
the real owner of the offending gun.