When rapper G. Dep turned himself in for a nearly 2-decade-old shooting, he told police he wanted to clear his conscience.
Yesterday he found out his fate, 15 years to life even after a judge, prosecutors and even the jury foreman said he deserved credit for coming forward when he’d never been suspected in the long-cold case.
The 37-year-old rapper didn’t speak at his sentencing, but his lawyer, Anthony L. Ricco, said G. Dep was at peace with his decision to speak up.
“He was in search of his redemption and his honor, and some might say that he achieved that,” Ricco said after court.
The sentencing capped a case when the rapper decided to come clean after telling police he’d shot someone while trying to rob him on a street corner years earlier.
