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Celebrity lawyer Bradford Cohen weighed in on NBA YoungBoy's 27-month sentence after the rapper pleaded guilty in a federal gun case. As reported by AllHipHop, the case was transferred from Louisiana to Utah before the verdict came out. According to Cohen, he predicted the judgment weeks before it was passed.
For the unversed, Bradford Cohen had also been Kodak Black's lawyer. According to his LinkedIn profile, Cohen is the managing partner at Cohen & McMullen. He has held the position since January 2015.
The lawyer went to Western New England University, where he got his degree in marketing/finance. Bradford Cohen then attended Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law to receive his JD degree in law.
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Explaining his prediction about the judgment in the NBA YoungBoy case, Cohen mentioned that he believed that "the case in Utah is weak," and he added, "the Federal case had all kinds of trouble." He further wrote on Instagram in a post dated September 9:
"Being right is a bad habit of mine. Global plea 27 months…will be out with credit time served in prob 12 months… lawyer did a nice job with resolving the matter successfully."
AllHipHop reported that according to Cohen, YoungBoy might be out sooner than expected.
Everything to know about celebrity lawyer Bradford Cohen
Bradford Cohen had begun his career by working as a law clerk back in 1996 for Kings County Superior Court. He then became an associate at a law firm named Haley, Sinagra, and Penez, as mentioned in his LinkedIn profile.
Cohen then got a job at Fox News Channel as a legal commentator, where he continued working for about two years from 2007 till 2009.
He further owned a firm named Bradford Cohen Law, for about 18 years, from 1998 till December 2015. Finally, in January 2015, he got associated with Cohen & McMullen. According to a description about the lawyer, mentioned on the firm's official website:
"Based on his expertise and extensive experience in both federal and state courts, Mr. Cohen is highly sought after for his legal commentary on high-profile cases and has been showcased on CNBC, NBC, The Dan Abrams Show, Nancy Grace, Fox News, CNN, and Celebrity Justice."
According to the official site, his areas of expertise involved criminal defense, commercial litigation, catastrophic injury and wrongful death, and contracts & business formations.
Over the years, Cohen had also received a number of awards for his service. The famous trial attorney is also a part of several associations, like the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Broward County Bar Association, to name a few.
Cohen had previously weighed in on Young Thug's attorney Brian Steel's arrest. Cohen criticized the judge and extended support to Steel. In a tweet posted on June 11, he wrote:
"This case and judge is off the reservation. This is an instant mistrial... Defense lawyers across the country should be terrified by the lack of judicial knowledge."
For the unversed, on August 14, 2024, NBA YoungBoy pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He was one of the 16 individuals taken into custody back in 2020 from a music video shoot in Louisiana. Over time, several charges were filed against the rapper.
