Producer Raphy Pina will have to continue serving his sentence in federal prison.
An order was issued today by the panel of judges for the First Circuit of Appeals in Boston denying the request for bail on appeal that his lawyers had filed. Pina’s defense was trying to get him out on bail while his case was heard on appeal.
On May 24, the also sentimental partner of the singer Natti Natasha was sentenced by federal judge Francisco Besosa to three years and five months for two counts of illegal possession of a weapon modified to fire automatically and for possessing a weapon that was not supposed to be used. I had to be a federal convict.
On May 31, the producer’s defense filed an 88-page motion in which they alleged that Pina Nieves “does not present a flight or security risk, and his appeal will raise substantial legal questions that, if decided in his favor, would result in a new trial.”
Later, federal judge Francisco Besosa reaffirmed his determination to keep the music producer in prison while he appeals his guilty verdict.
“The Court is not convinced by clear and convincing evidence that Pina is a danger or a flight threat. Accordingly, the court upholds its order, requiring Pina’s detention while her appeal is pending,” reads the 14-page federal order.
“Pina did not provide any reason for this Court to determine through clear and convincing evidence that he does not have access to the unaccounted-for rifles, nor that it is unlikely that he represents a danger to the safety of others,” he indicated, while propping up a list of firearms and ammunition seized by the authorities.
Regarding the risk of flight, Besosa stressed that the businessman made dubious requests to the federal court, such as a request he made to celebrate the birth of his daughter Vida Isabelle in the Dominican Republic. In it, the judge questioned the reasons why the girl’s mother, Natti Natasha, changed her doctors at the last minute during her pregnancy to give birth. Life Isabelle was born on May 22, 2021 in Miami.
“Babies are born when babies are born, not when parents want them to be born,” Besosa said.
“Foreign ties and resources to avoid prison suggest that Pina is a flight risk,” he reiterated.
