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<p class=”mol-para-with-font”>A Sydney rapper who made his name spitting rhymes in prison yards has offered a word of advice to anyone who might be thinking of representing themselves in court.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Spanian posted the outrageous video to his army of followers on YouTube, describing a time when he argued his own case to a judge after being charged with a litany of serious offences when he was chased by police in a stolen car.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The Australian MC had no legal experience and admitted to smoking ‘cones’ immediately before he cross-examined detectives who positively identified him.</p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
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</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Sydney rapper Spanian (pictured) who made his name spitting rhymes in prison yards, has offered a word of advice to anyone who might be thinking of representing themselves in court</p></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Spanian was living in Redfern’s notorious housing commission ‘the block’ in 2006 and openly described himself as a junkie addicted to heroin – or ‘unkie-j’ in pig Latin.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>He was about to take a trip in a stolen car which was parked nearby, but when he turned onto the street ’10 cop cars’ descended upon the vehicle in a ‘sting’.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’I was in a chase straight away… and I got boxed in,’ Spanian said in the ‘I thought I’m not getting done here, plus I was a bad unkie-j.'</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>There was only one gap Spanian could drive through but a ‘copper’ was standing in the way.</p><div><div data-track-module=”am-related_carousel^related_carousel” data-track-selector=”.rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])” data-dm-rotator-rotate=”false” data-track-pos=”static” data-preferred-shared-network-enabled=”” data-dm-rotator-auto-init=”” id=”p-18″ class=”related-carousel with-fb-or-tw news half” data-dm-rotator-active-class=”active” data-dm-rotator-page-count=”1.0″ data-dm-social-article-auto-init=”” data-dm-rotator-page-size=”1″> <div class=”rotator bdrcc”> <div class=”rotator-title”> <h2>RELATED ARTICLES</h2> <ul class=”rotator-pages link-xocc”> <li class=”rotator-prev”>Previous
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</div></div> </div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’I thought f**k this… and (drove) straight into him and he bounced off the bonnet,’ he said.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>A major police pursuit unfolded with a huge contingent of cops chasing Spanian in the ‘red hot’ stolen car.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Spanian said he was beeping the horn to let pedestrians know to get out of the way but one ‘dumb c**t on a motorbike’ stopped in traffic and attempted to block the lane.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’Brother I’m a hottie getting chased by 30 cop cars and this c**t is sitting in the lane … so I drove straight into him lad, I’m sorry bra,’ Spanian said.</p><div class=”moduleFull mol-video”><div><div itemprop=”video” itemscope=”itemscope” website content=”Jailyard rapper tells outrageous story about fleeing from police” itemprop=”name” /><meta content=”PT02M37S” itemprop=”duration” /><meta website itemprop=”thumbnailUrl” /><meta website itemprop=”contentURL” /><meta content=”2020-07-20T02:08:13+0100″ itemprop=”uploadDate” /><meta content=”576″ itemprop=”height” /><meta content=”1024″ itemprop=”width” /><meta content=”Jailyard rapper Spanian reveals why you should never represent yourself in court – with an outrageous story about fleeing cops in a stolen car, hiding under a BBQ and then arguing with a judge while ‘blazed’.” itemprop=”description” /><div class=”item”> <div class=”vjs-video-container vjs-fixed vjs-span-two-col news” id=”v-7860751543120801818″> <video controls=”” class=”video-js vjs-default-skin” website rapper tells outrageous story about fleeing from website rapper Spanian reveals why you should never represent yourself in court – with an outrageous story about fleeing cops in a stolen car, hiding under a BBQ and then arguing with a judge while ‘blazed’.website preload=”none”> <source website type=”video/mp4″></source> </video> </div> </div> </div></div></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>He then tried to evade police by driving on the footpath like ‘Grand Theft Auto’ and eventually ‘ghosted the car’ (jumped out) while it was moving at about 40km/h.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’When you are getting chased you rip off your clothes (so it’s harder for 코인카지노 police to identify you), so I’m running in my boxer shorts which is probably more red hot but you know.'</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Spanian scaled a fence and hid in a local resident’s backyard under a BBQ tarp.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>He was so exhausted from the chase he fell asleep and woke up when it was night time.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>When he peered through to see if anyone was around, he saw a family sitting in their lounge room watching TV.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’They must have freaked. I just jumped out of the tarp, hit the fence and in one second I was gone,’ Spanian said.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’Imagine what they were thinking just watching TV and a half naked bloke jumps out from under a tarp.'</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’I still laugh to this day.'</p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>The Sydney rapper made his name spitting rhymes in prison yards and now has about 90,000 followers on social media</p></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Although he evaded police, one officer had positively identified him and detectives were searching homes across Redfern looking for him.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>After five days, the long arm of the law caught up with him and he was arrested.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>In jail awaiting his trial there was a mix up with Spanian’s free legal aid representation.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>He was mistakenly sent a lawyer from Aboriginal Legal Services because of his Redfern address.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>When Spanian explained he was not Indigenous just hours before his court appearance, the legal representative told him the case would likely be adjourned for two weeks.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Rather than wait, Spanian decided to represent himself – a decision he said was ‘a big mistake.'</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’I’m my greens, in the cells with my boys pumping cones, so I’m f**king blazed … I’m off chops and I could barely speak properly and about to represent myself in court,’ he said.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’The Judge said are you sure you wanna do this? I said let’s go!'</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>There was no fingerprints, no DNA, no camera footage and he was not caught at the scene.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>All the evidence in the case was reliant on one police officer positively identifying him, so a drug-affected Spanian began to cross examine the detective.</p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>The Aussie MC had no legal experience and admitted to smoking ‘cones’ immediately before he cross-examined detectives who positively identified him</p></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’I must have looked like a r****d up there,’ Spanian admitted. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’How can you be certain of making a positive identification at 120km/h? Spanian recalled himself asking the officer.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The officer said; ‘I know it was you, I know you.'</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’I said objection! And the judge started laughing,’ Spanian said.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’This is how stoned I was. The judge said, can you move to sequence A, events 81 of page whatever… and I like yeah okay.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’I flicked to a random page and 메리트카지노 looked back up at her.'</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Eventually, Spanian got off lightly with an 18-month sentence in prison.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’The judge said I’m going to have to find you guilty today because not once did you ever say that you didn’t do it,’ he said.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’You told us that there is no fingerprints, no camera footage, there is no DNA, you questioned the officer but at no time did you say ‘I didn’t do it.’ </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’Don’t represent yourself in court when you are on the Bupe (withdrawals from heroin) and you have just had a sesh (smoked cannabis), that’s the lesson you take away from today,’ Spanian said.</p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”>
</noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>’The judge said I’m going to have to find you guilty today because not once did you ever say that you didn’t do it,’ Spanian said (pictured smoking a cigar)</p></div></div>
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