Beanie: Judge Declares Mistrial; Hung Jury Means the Whole Ordeal Could Begin Anew.
Philadelphia Weekly (April 28, 2004)
Author: Volk, Steve
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"I was watching that movie City of God," he says, "and I had to check myself. There were these kids running around with machine guns. I looked at that and thought, `Man, that's rough,' but it's normal to them. They're not even stressed. To them that's just how life is. If they came to South Philadelphia they'd say, `What are you complaining about? This is sweet!' Because that's how it is: What you grow up with, that seems normal to you. But it's not normal. It is just what you're used to."
Sam Derry, Brown's fiance, held Sigel's three-month-old daughter Jaelynn proudly and cooed, "Don't you ever let me catch you looking at some other man. If I catch you cheatin' on me, you're gonna pack your bags and get out. You don't act like this with anyone else--do you?"[Sigel]'s 300-pound bodyguard Bilal rubs his big back against the wall, trying to scratch an itch he can't reach. "I'm like Baloo," he declares, "from Jungle Book, scratching his back against a tree."Beanie: Judge Declares Mistrial; Hung Jury Means the Whole Ordeal Could Begin Anew.
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A tourist from Georgia clutching a little silver camera approaches a small group and asks, "Are there any famous people around?"She motions toward the television cameras, reporters and photographers outside Chili's at 12th and Filbert surrounding a group of well-dressed men who alternate between hip-handshakes and conversations on their tiny silver cell phones.Told that rapper Beanie Sigel is sitting across the street on the low stone barrier surrounding the Marriott parking lot, she walks over to see if she can pose with him for a photograph.Sigel, who happens to be on trial for attempted murder, stands up and puts a big arm around Pam Ellis, a 46-year-old Southern woman with an accent so thick the words seem to drip like syrup from her mouth.The jury in Sigel's case walked out of the courtroom to start its deliberations just half an hour a...Try vLex for FREE for 3 days
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