Remy Ma To Appeal Guilty Verdict

Female rapper Remy Ma (real name Remy Smith) plans to appeal the court's guilty verdict given yesterday (March 27) in her trial for assault and weapons charges. As DX reported earlier [click to read], a jury convicted Remy on two counts of first-degree assault, attempted coercion and criminal possession of a weapon.

Remy's attorney Ivan Fischer still remains adamant that she accidentally shot Makeda Barnes-Joseph in her car, after a scuffle over $3,000 cash allegedly stolen from Remy's purse in July of 2007.

During his closing statements, Fischer claimed the accidental shooting theory was a fact that was supported by Barnes-Joseph's own testimony. However, prosecutors say that Remy Ma's shooting was the result of the rapper's decision to take "an illegal .45-caliber automatic and [load] it with hollow-point bullets and go into Ms. Joseph's car."

Remy Ma faces 25 years in prison. She will be held in prison until her sentencing day next month.