![]() ![]() Gone were the jewels, painted face and overstuffed push-up bra that marks her hip-hop image. Jones sat still and timid at the defense table. "It would be gratifying," he told the pint-sized lyricist who calls herself the Queen Bee. Judge Lynch suggested Jones read the letters herself, as a reminder to live up to the role model her fans purport her to be. "They do make a difference," he said, as they helped him see "the human being and not just the crime that's being committed." Still, Judge Lynch said he read every single letter he received from family, friends and fans offering support to Jones and urging leniency ("and in one or two cases severity") in her sentencing. It was an insult to the court and to the system." District Judge Gerard Lynch said of her performance for the jury. "You tried to charm them and fake them out," U.S. The judge admonished her Wednesday for perjuring herself again in his courtroom during her turn on the stand. The 4-foot-11 rap star was convicted March 17, 2005, of one count of conspiracy to commit perjury, and three counts of perjuring herself before a grand jury that was investigating a Februshoot-out in front of a Manhattan radio station. ![]() She will surrender to federal authorities on September 19 at 2 p.m. She has requested to do her time at Danbury, a minimum-security federal institution in Connecticut, to be close to her mother. Jones was also fined $50,000 and will be on three years' probation after her release. At the time, I thought it was the right thing to do, but now I know I was wrong." "I testified falsely during the grand jury and in trial. "I can tell you this is by far the toughest thing I have ever had to go through," Jones said in a thin, shaky voice as she stood before the judge, clutching a Bible, and belatedly admitting guilt after having maintained her innocence throughout trial. The rap diva, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison Wednesday, for lying to a grand jury about a 2001 gun fight between members of her rap entourage and a rival rap crew. NEW YORK (Court TV) - Lil' Kim will be doing a little time. ![]()
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