The short version: D loses his driver's license for 18 months total, and has 100 days in jail suspended. The coke charge is going to a Circuit court grand jury. Since he appealed the guilty verdicts to the Circuit court, it looks like they're going to try to consolidate those charges with the coke charge and have them hadnled together (probably to get the DUI/pot dropped).

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(From the Richmond Times-Dispatch) Grammy Award-winning R&B artist Michael Eugene Archer, better known as D'Angelo, pleaded guilty today to possession of marijuana and driving under the influence of alcohol resulting from a traffic stop in Chesterfield County in January.

Archer, a native of Richmond and resident of Midlothian, waived his preliminary hearing on a third charge of possession of cocaine, a felony. A judge certified that charge to a Chesterfield Circuit Court grand jury.

Archer was fined $250 and given a 90-day suspended jail term on the DUI conviction. In addition, his driver's license was suspended for 12 months.

On the marijuana charge, Archer was fined $50 and given a 10-day suspended jail term. His driver's license was suspended for an additional six months.

Archer appealed both the marijuana and DUI convictions to Chesterfield Circuit Court, authorities said.

Archer was pulled over at 4:10 a.m. Jan. 9 in the 3100 block of Polo Parkway, where he was charged with driving under the influence. A subsequent search yielded some marijuana and .029 grams of cocaine.

Archer's first run-in with the law in Chesterfield occurred in November 2002, when he was arrested at his home on misdemeanor charges of aggressive driving, assault and curse and abuse, and disorderly conduct. Those charges stemmed from an alleged confrontation on Nov. 17, 2002, with a woman at the Bellgrade Texaco on Huguenot Road in which she said the artist cursed at and spit on her.

In March 2003, Archer reached a civil settlement with the woman and was fined $500 after pleading no contest to obstruction of justice.

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I ain't sayin' anything bad about him--just reporting the facts. Hell, I want him to beat everything! Go D!

i'm lost...

let's hope he doesn't do any jail time

>waived his preliminary hearing on a third charge of possession of cocaine, a felony. A judge certified that charge to a Chesterfield Circuit Court grand jury.


12 months with no license...hmmm...studio!!!!!!!!!!!!

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yeah, was thinking the same thing.
let's hope he'll be stranded in the
studio for those 18 months, huh?

and airbreed, tell me again why this
isn't allowed on the boards? it's purely
facts. no funny business. if that's not
allowed..

btw, thanks for the update, buck.

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nah, its just my way of 'tounge in cheek' with all of the common posts the mods been lockin' up latelty.

i figured they start a trend with any d posts, about the arrest and drug charges as well.

>12 months with no license...hmmm...studio!!!!!!!!!!!!

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what virgin is making of this? d must
really be doing some serious damage in
the studio. normally he would've been
sacked by now, i'm sure.

five years..no release..just trouble.

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Well, he is signed to Virgin. They're probably more concerned with Janet Jackson showing her boob to the Super Bowl audience than with D. It would be pretty hypocritocal for them to sack him.

...you don't let genius walk away.

ATTENTION: Folks, yes, that was 100% pure unadulterated dickridin'. (I'm in Artist, right?)

nonetheless, he's one expensive mofo.
but they're expecting another "voodoo"
sales-wise. maybe something even bigger.

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sheeeit march was bad for us...and we did about 4 shows.

this mofo aint been on a stage since october 2000.

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look for it in another three hours.

and dont speak any further on that, here.

lol

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i heard he got paid a cool million for that one. jk.

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...cocaine isn't all that expensive in Richmond.

EDIT: to correct reported quantity.

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lol.

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Blackmailin' bastard!!!

**looks around nervously**

he would n't even be in this mess if he had finished the damn gram.

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some new music. WTF is going on this year?

Hmm. 18 months driver's license suspension.

Well, the good thing is at the price of gas and especially if you still driving the range/or land rover.....

D'Angelo you will save enough money to fly on SouthWest airlines into New Yawwkk, if using Electric LadyLand Studios.

But, YOU will not be leaving the country.

If still part ..... , just maybe someone
could make you a deal of
x amount of ..........s and you fly free.

Last not least, one particular person in New Yawwkkkk,

if you could barter sleep overs and chauffering services to Electric LadyLand( if recording there)you still have a win win situation.

That person one keep you quite in order.

Oh. And then there is the bus.

Michael Joseph Jackson mastering of disguises...
how manyyyy folk in New Yawwwkkk got
"Guitars" swinging on their shoulders.

Blend in.

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I don't know much about legal matters, but how do you plead guilty to something and then appeal the conviction. Seriously look:

>(From the Richmond Times-Dispatch) Grammy Award-winning R&B
>artist Michael Eugene Archer, better known as D'Angelo,
>pleaded guilty today to possession of marijuana and driving
>under the influence of alcohol resulting from a traffic stop
>in Chesterfield County in January.

And then ...

>Archer appealed both the marijuana and DUI convictions to
>Chesterfield Circuit Court, authorities said.


Can somebody with legal knowledge please explain this to me?

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Yeah, I thought about this for a while...the best I can think of is that they're looking to beat the felony coke charge on some sort of technicality--illegal search and seizure, perhaps. The felony charge has been remanded to a Circuit court grand jury (in VA District courts hadnle all the trifling shit, while Circuit courts do the felonies, etc.), at which point it wil be decided whether or not to send it to trial. It's possible that D's lawyer (one Ned Mikula, esq.) has it in mind that the grand jury will decide that there isn't sufficient evidence to send it to trial, or that the search was unwarranted (lack of probable cause, for example), and that the determination by the grand jury that the search of D's car was invalid will also apply to the two misdemeanors. Or, they might simply not care too much about the misdemeanors and want them out of the way (for the time being) in order to focus exclusively on the felony. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.

Grand Jurys are usually called for felony charges. A grand jury decides whether the case has enough evidence to go to trial, if there is.. you get indicted. Being indicted isn't a conviction, after you are indicted then your case goes to trial.

Im guessing that they are hoping that the grand jury won't indict. or whatever.

Sorry if most of that was obvious.

Either way, D ain't kill nobody and he's a celebrity so he should have no excuse not be up in the studio after the smoke settles.

But see it said that he pled guilty to the weed charge and the DUI, but later it said that he's appealing the weed and DUI convictions.

Maybe I just don't get it.

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you can appeal against the decision (which must be on a point of law, not fact i.e if the judge misdirected the jury on the law) or you can appeal against the severity of the punishment at a preliminary hearing or full trial.

Because he pleaded guilty at the preliminary hearing on the first two charges he will be appealing against the punishment...

The third charge will be heard at a future date, so he could yet be further punished. His lawyer must think there's a good chance he will get off on a technicality; hence the waived preliminary. If not, let's hope the judge is a Voodoo fan!

That makes sense. Thanks.

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Greyhound, D, Greyhound.

*gone*

>Greyhound, D, Greyhound.

AHH. SEATTLE.

4 year old Grand-Daughter:

Now 6. First / longg trip. No problems until entering Seattle.
" I ! waanna go to my grandma Monique house"!.

Mother: Grandma live too far away to go there.

Grand-Daughter: Take me to somebody house !.

Yes. D'Angelo .
Go Greyhound and leave the driving to us (them) and write as you ride.

Oh heck, just place a hat ($$$) on the floor and strumm the guitar.
All eyes on your hat / $$$.

Dang. Finally. D'Angelo is now in the okayplayer/news headline.
*Sigh*. Music tide shall turn.

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too damn far now...

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D'Angelo we are in a Munchies Contest.

Awww, at least you smiled ,ahh, when you did not want to give the reporter an interview.

Was you almost late ? Walking fast you twas


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