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UPDATE: Drake’s Attorney Claims New Deposition In XXXTentacion Murder Trial Is Just Meant For ‘Generating Headlines’

<div><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;drake&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Drake&&num;8217&semi;s<&sol;strong><&sol;a> lawyer appears to be working overtime&comma; even after a judge in the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;xxxtentacion&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>XXXTentacion<&sol;strong><&sol;a> murder trial granted Drizzy&&num;8217&semi;s motion to avoid a deposition&comma; as reported by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;judge-grants-drakes-motion-to-avoid-deposition&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><em><strong>The Shade Room<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;a> last week&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Well&comma; now it looks like he may have to sit for one after all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Drake Now Scheduled To Appear For Deposition On Friday&comma; Attorney Claims It&&num;8217&semi;s All For Headlines<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Process servers reportedly attempted to serve Drake with a subpoena at his Beverly Hills home on Valentine’s Day&comma; which his staff fiercely rejected&period; According to court docs&comma; Drake’s security guards kicked the subpoena down his driveway after servers attempted to get the papers to the &OpenCurlyQuote;I’m Too Sexy’ rapper&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Drake is now scheduled to appear for a deposition on Friday&comma; which his attorney argues is only a way &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;to inject celebrity spectacle into an otherwise routine trial and generate headlines into the case&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;account&period;miamiherald&period;com&sol;paywall&sol;stop&quest;resume&equals;272541543" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><em><strong>Miami Herald<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;a>&comma; Mauricio Padilla&comma; lawyer for Dedrick Williams&comma; one of the three men accused of murdering XXXTentacion&comma; issued a motion last week requiring Drake to deliver a deposition&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"Co71yd4OhWf" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Drake&&num;8217&semi;s Armed Guards Kicked Subpoena Down His Driveway After Server Arrived On Valentine&&num;8217&semi;s Day<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>In court documents shared on Twitter Monday by Los Angeles Magazine legal reporter&comma; Meghann Cuniff&comma; Padilla recalled how an attempt was made to serve the subpoena to Drake outside his California home on Valentine&&num;8217&semi;s Day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; &&num;8220&semi;armed guards&&num;8221&semi; reportedly not only sent away the servers but also kicked the subpoena down the driveway&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;The process server was met by armed guards who refused to accept service&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Padilla wrote in the document shared by Cuniff&period; &&num;8220&semi;The armed guards closed the colossal gate in the process server&&num;8217&semi;s face&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1627814018248478725" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Padilla added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;after having the gate shut in his face&comma; the process server posted the subpoena&comma; only to have one of Mr&period; Graham&&num;8217&semi;s security staff literally kick the subpoena down the long driveway&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Apparently&comma; Drake&&num;8217&semi;s staff believes that physically kicking the subpoena is a legally sound way of refusing service&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Padilla went on to say&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; Drake&&num;8217&semi;s representatives have not yet responded to a request for comment on the matter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;111319" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-111319" style&equals;"width&colon; 1024px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-111319" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;GettyImages-978151690&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"683" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-111319" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">XXXTentacion performs during the second day of the Rolling Loud Festival in downtown Miami on Saturday&comma; May 6&comma; 2017&period; &lpar;Matias J&period; Ocner&sol;Miami Herald&sol;Tribune News Service via Getty Images&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Four Suspects Nabbed Two Months After XXXTentacion&&num;8217&semi;s Shooting Death&comma; Claim No Connection To Drake<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>XXX&comma; real name Jahseh Onfroy&comma; was shot and killed outside of a motorcycle dealership in Deerfield Beach&comma; Florida&comma; on June 18&comma; 2018&period; He was just 20 years old&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The young rapper was leaving the dealership when his car was blocked by an oncoming SUV&period; Two masked gunmen then confronted Onfroy&comma; fatally shooting him&comma; before stealing the rapper&&num;8217&semi;s personal belongings &&num;8211&semi; later discovered to be a bag containing &dollar;50&comma;000 in cash &&num;8211&semi; and fleeing the scene&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;accused-xxxtentacion-killers-deny-being-hired-to-kill-rapper&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong><em>The Shade Room<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;a> reported at the time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In August 2018&comma; two months after Onfroy&&num;8217&semi;s death&comma; four suspects — Michael Boatwright&comma; Dedrick Williams&comma; Robert Allen&comma; and Trayvon Newsome — were arrested and charged with first-degree murder&comma; robbery&comma; and firearm charges&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Allen&comma; who turned state’s witness&comma; told the court last week that the group had not been hired by anyone to kill XXXTentacion&comma; after one of their defense attorneys tried to claim Drake had hired them to kill XXX&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;defense-in-xxxtentacions-murder-case-claims-fatal-shooting-stemmed-from-feud-between-xxx-and-drake&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><em><strong>The Shade Room<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;a> reported earlier this week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;111521" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-111521" style&equals;"width&colon; 1024px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-111521" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;GettyImages-1246874715&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"683" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-111521" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Shooting suspects Trayvon Newsome&comma; left&comma; and Michael Boatwright enter the courtroom for opening statements in the XXXTentacion murder trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday&comma; Feb&period; 7&comma; 2023&period; &lpar;Amy Beth Bennett&sol;South Florida Sun-Sentinel&sol;Tribune News Service via Getty Images&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Rapper Once Posted That Drake Would Be To Blame If He Ever Ended Up Dead<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The two artists had been feuding at the time of latter’s death&comma; with XXX at one point accusing Drizzy of stealing his lyrics or style&comma; spurring speculation that Drake hired them to kill his rap rival&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And casting more suspicion is a the fact that XXX stated on social media in Feb&period; 2018 that if he ever ended up dead&comma; Drake would be the reason behind it&comma; Padilla said during the first day of the trial on February 7&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Onfroy was killed just months after that post in June 2018&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The rapper&comma; whose real name is Jahseh Onfroy&comma; once stated on social media that if he ever ended up dead&comma; Drake would be the reason behind it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; he later retracted that bold statement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If anyone tries to kill me it was &commat;champagnepapi &lbrack;Drake’s Instagram handle&rsqb;&period; I’m snitching right now&period;” Onfroy posted before deleting it&comma; along with a few other incendiary posts&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"BQtMToJBM7g" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Trial Watch&colon; Murder Of XXXTentacion And Court Developments<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>XXX was ambushed after leaving the store in his BMW as Williams cut off the rapper’s sports car with his SUV&comma; while Boatwright and Newsome rushed XXXTentacion’s car to rob him&comma; prosecutor Pascale Achille said in court last Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The trio ended up stealing about &dollar;50&comma;000 that XXXTentacion had in a Louis Vuitton bag before Boatwright shot him multiple times &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;without any provocation&comma;” Achille said&comma; <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;defense-in-xxxtentacions-murder-case-claims-fatal-shooting-stemmed-from-feud-between-xxx-and-drake&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>The Shade Room<&sol;strong><&sol;a><&sol;em> reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The three were tied to the shooting through surveillance footage and cellphone pinging spots&comma; as well as the testimony of Robert Allen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Allen took a plea deal and is expected to testify during the trial&comma; Achille said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The rapper was a platinum-selling rising star who’s music explored themes of prejudice and depression in his songs&period; 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