No Ducking Trial for Young Buck
Young Buck is going Straight Outta Ca$hville and into the courtroom.
A Los Angeles judge has ordered the G-Unit rapper to stand trial on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly knifing a man during a melee at last year's Vibe Music Awards.
The 24-year-old Buck, whose real name is David Darnell Brown, is accused of stabbing parolee Jimmy James Johnson after Johnson apparently sucker-punched Dr. Dre during the taping of the award show on Nov. 15 in Santa Monica.
The altercation sparked a bloody chair-throwing brawl that sent audience members scurrying for the exits as Dre's bodyguards pounced on Johnson. In the ensuing mayhem, Johnson was stabbed and treated at nearby hospital for a collapsed lung.
In a hearing on Monday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Dabney declared that prosecutors had offered sufficient evidence for Young Buck to stand trial on the assault charge, which carries a maximum sentence of eight years in prison if he's convicted.
Buck pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in December. Defense attorney Leonard Levine said he's eager to get the case before a jury to prove the rapper's innocence.
"We're confident when all the facts comes out in this case, Young Buck will be exonerated," Levine told E! Online.
After examining a video of the fracas, police fingered the Nashville-born Buck, a Dre prot?g?, as one of three knife-wielding culprits who lunged at the 26-year-old Johnson. Authorities are still trying to ID the two other men brandishing knives.
The show eventually went on and Buck, whose first solo effort, Straight Outta Ca$hville, debuted at number three on the Billboard album charts last August, wound up collecting a Vibe trophy for Best Group as part of 50 Cent's G-Unit crew.
His trial is tentatively slated to kick off on Sept. 27, though Levine indicated that date could very well change.
As for Dre's assailant, Johnson has since made a full recovery and was ordered last month to stand trial on an assault charge. He has also pleaded innocent.
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