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"Beanie Sigel was acquitted of attempted murder today in a Philadelphia courtroom. The rapper was facing a retrial for allegedly shooting a man two years ago outside a strip club on a crowded Philadelphia street. The three-day proceedings took place just a few weeks after Sigel was released from federal prison for drug and firearms possession. \n\nThe thirty-one-year-old rapper, born Dwight Grant, was released from the Philadelphia correctional facility after serving eight months of his year-long sentence, stemming from a 2002 traffic stop.\n\n&amp;quot;Only fools or people who got caught are in jail,&amp;quot; Sigel told Rolling Stone before beginning his prison term. &amp;quot;Take that to heart. If you can learn what not to do from me, then I&amp;apos;m good with that.&amp;quot;\n\nNamed after South Philly&amp;apos;s Sigel Street, the rapper first appeared in 1998 on Jay-Z&amp;apos;s Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life followed by his 1999 debut The Truth. He released his third album, The B.Coming, in March, while incarcerated.\n\nThe rapper&amp;apos;s previous attempted murder trial, held in April 2004, was declared a mistrial when jurors failed to reach a verdict. He faces another trial for allegedly breaking a man&amp;apos;s eye socket during a January 2003 argument."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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