Snoop Dogg No-Contest Plea, No Jail Time

Rapper Snoop Dogg made a surprise no-contest plea to gun and drug charges today and was given a three-year suspended sentence that will spare him jail time.

The 35-year-old rap star, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, was also sentenced to five years of formal probation and ordered to perform 800 hours of community service by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge.

Broadus was expected in court for an arraignment on charges of sale or transportation of marijuana and possession of a gun by a convicted felon, which could have landed him behind bars for up to four years if convicted at a trial.

He instead entered the no contest plea, apparently as part of an agreement with prosecutors.

Broadus was arrested on October 25 last year after police at Burbank Airport, near Los Angeles, stopped him for leaving his car too long in a passenger loading area and found a gun and marijuana in his car.



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