Amongst the turmoil surrounding Nicki Minaj, the current case involving her brother actually bares real life impact. A new development from her brother, Jelani Maraj, has unfolded with his defense team insistence of his innocence.
Jelani Maraj’s legal team filed a flurry of motions last month in opposition to the case, questioning the legality of the top charge, to suppress evidence found at Maraj’s house and asking the court to reveal details about the alleged victim’s sexual history.
Maraj was arrested in 2015 for allegedly raping and sodomizing a tween girl over a period of eight months, with the last assault allegedly occurring the day before cops caught him. He is facing felony charges of predatory sexual assault against a child and sexual conduct against a child – but has insisted that the alleged victim was having sex with other people, but just not him.
“We believe the truth will come out, David Schwartz, Maraj’s lawyer, told us. “The complaining witness in the case and others have a real motive in this case to lie, this never occurred and Jelani is completely innocent.”
Maraj rejected prosecutors deal of 15 years to life after they said they found evidence of his semen on his accuser’s pants.
The truth will come out eventually, someone on one of these sides is fabricating their story.