DaBaby won't serve any jail time in misdemeanor battery conviction over 2020 incident involving LA homeowner ... as rapper agrees to plea deal in case
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DaBaby will not serve any jail time in a 2020 felony battery case, as his legal team agreed to a plea deal in a Los Angeles County courtroom Thursday.
The rapper, 32, who was not present in person but represented by lawyer Blair Berk, entered a guilty plea to misdemeanor battery, Rolling Stone reported Thursday after reviewing court docs.
He received a sentence of a year's probation on top of time served from Judge Ray Jurado, according to the outlet.
The Cleveland-born musical artist in the case had been accused of sucker punching a Los Angeles homeowner named Gary Pagar, 68, whose mansion he was shooting a video at, the outlet reported.
DaBaby, whose real name is Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, was ordered to pay Pagar $10,000 in restitution over the incident, and remain at least 100 yards away from him, according to Rolling Stone.
DaBaby, 32, will not serve any jail time in a 2020 felony battery case, as his legal team agreed to a plea deal in a Los Angeles County courtroom Thursday. Pictured in New Jersey in 2021
DaBaby will not be permitted to 'possess, buy or sell any deadly weapons, including firearms' while he is on probation in connection with the plea deal.
The musical artist had previously served one day in jail in connection with his arrest in the incident in 2021, according to the outlet.
Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Heather Brel said that her office opted to let go of the charge of felony battery with serious bodily injury 'due to problems of proof of proving serious bodily injury at trial,' according to Rolling Stone.
Kirk faced as many as four years in prison if he had been convicted on the felony charge.
During Thursday's proceedings, the judge had read a victim impact statement Pagar had provided the court with in the case.
The Rockstar artist remains in litigation with Pagar, who has sued him for battery, fraud and breach of contract in connection with the December 2, 2020 incident, in which Pagar says DaBaby assaulted him amid a conflict over a video being shot at the home Pagar was renting him.
Proceedings in that case are slated to go to trial in September, the outlet reported.
Pagar said in legal docs reviewed by the outlet that he initially rented his six-bedroom home to DaBaby during the midst of the coronavirus pandemic in November of 2020.
The musical artist had been accused of sucker punching an LA homeowner named Gary Pagar, 68, whose mansion he was shooting a video at. Pictured in Atlanta in September of 2021
DaBaby was ordered to pay Pagar $10,000 in restitution over the incident, and remain at least 100 yards away from him. Pictured last year in LA
Pagar said that he mandated in the rental agreement that a maximum of 12 people could be on the premises at any given time.
Pagar told the court that Kirk breached the arrangement in having 40 people on the premises to make a music video for the song Play U Lay, which also featured rapper Stunna 4 Vegas and Jake Paul.
Pagar said in legal docs that DaBaby and his associates turned off security cameras at the home, at which time he said that they could not continue to film a 'commercial' production on the premises.
Pagar told the court that Kirk 'sucker-punched [him] in the face, knocking out his tooth and leaving him bruised and bloodied' when he arrived to the property to confront him about the breached agreement.
Pagar said DaBaby and his associates began 'pushing him, shoving, spitting on him, threatening him, and taunting him' in front of the home, 'tossed' his phone around and keyed his vehicle.
DaBaby said that Pagar used racial slurs and spat on him when he showed up to the home, TMZ reported in 2022.
