A federal judge has denied Tekashi 6ix9ine's request to serve out his prison sentence at home amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Judge Paul Engelmayer denied the request on Wednesday but said that he would have ordered home confinement instead if he had known about the coronavirus when he issued the sentence in December. “At the time of sentencing … the Court did not know and could not have known that the final four months of Mr.
Hernandez’s sentence would be served at a time of a worldwide pandemic to which persons with asthma, like Mr. Hernandez, have heightened vulnerability,” Englemayer said.