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"the night of Lil Wayne's first headlining concert in New York. NYPD pulled over the rapper's tour bus at about 11:30pm, at which point a Louis Vuitton bag was allegedly tossed from the bus. It contained a handgun"
According to lead prosecutor, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, gun possession can take two forms: "actual possession" or "dominion and control". Whereas "actual possession" means someone owns and carries the gun, "dominion and control" means that the weapon is available for immediate use, such as on a tour bus. "[In this case] we said it was dominion and control," Illuzzi-Orbon told MTV News. That is, Lil Wayne's "attempted gun possession" plea is a concession that the gun might not have been in the rapper's hand, but that it was on the bus and thus within his "control".
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