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Lil Wayne to be sentenced to year in jail
NEW YORK (AP) - Lil Wayne is set to begin an expected jail term on a New York gun case, after a dental problem and a courthouse fire pushed his sentencing back a month. The rap star is scheduled to be sentenced Monday to a year in city jail. He pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon. He admitted illegally having a loaded gun on his tour bus in July 2007. His sentencing was initially pushed back from Feb. 9 so he could have surgery on his bejeweled teeth. It was postponed again last week when a fire shut down Manhattan's main criminal courthouse while he was on his way there. Lil Wayne, a New Orleans native, has been one of rap's most prolific and profitable figures in recent years. His "Tha Carter III" was the best-selling album of 2008. (Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
