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THE JAZZ SIPPER

see the world. Vance remembered Babu saying, yeah man that will be cool,
one of us has to do that and see the world for the both of us.

It had been about two weeks since he and Babu had seen or talked to each
other. That’s how their friendship had become during the past year after
Vance had gotten shot. About a week or so before Vance got out the hospital,
Babu was picked up in a police street sweep somewhere in the 6 t h ward on
gun charges. And Babu had been in jail ever since.

Babu had told Vance that he was riding with Lou and Frankie Man’s brother,
Tee when they got stopped by the police and a gun was found under the front
passenger seat of the car. The police took all three of them in on various
charges with the most serious being the gun charge, eventually Lou and Babu
beat the gun charges. Because the car was for Tee, he also got a murder rap
that was attached to the gun they found in the car. After a ballistic test was
done, Tee had a life plus twenty year sentence hanging over his head. Babu
said that Tee wanted him and Lou to not say nothing and the District
Attorney’s case would have been hard to prove. And probably would have
dropped the charges down from murder to gun possession for all three. This
meant a minimum sentence of seven years for each one of them. Babu said
that he could not take the chance that the charges would be dropped, it would
have been his second time going to court to fight murder charges before he
was 21 years old and his lawyer told him that his chance to win would be slim.
So he told the D.A., through his lawyer to check the fingerprints on the gun.
Babu prints came back negative. Lou prints came back negative also, but Tee
prints came back positive. Babu said Tee felt that he sold him out to the D.A.,
but Babu told Vance he did not care how Tee felt, because if he were a man