{"id":12793,"date":"2026-11-04T10:01:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T10:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12793"},"modified":"2026-11-04T10:01:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T10:01:46","slug":"bucharest-court-of-appeal-overturns-wiz-khalifas-prison-sentence-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12793","title":{"rendered":"Bucharest Court of Appeal overturns Wiz Khalifa\u2019s prison sentence in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bucharest Court of Appeal has overturned the prison sentence issued against American rapper Wiz Khalifa for possessing and smoking cannabis at a Romanian festival in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.ro\/justitie\/rapperul-wiz-khalifa-condamnat-inchisoare-executare-dupa-fumat-tigara-cannabis-scena-unui-festival-costinesti-ar-putea-scapa-pedeapsa-curtea-apel-bucuresti-i-admis-contestatia-anulare-1922402503442026111822932603\">News.ro<\/a> reported. The court granted his extraordinary appeal and ordered a new hearing of the case.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling canceled a December 2025 decision by the Constan\u021ba Court of Appeal that sentenced the artist, whose legal name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, to nine months in prison. The related s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/society\/wiz-khalifa-wanted-person-romania-may-2026\">entence enforcement warrant<\/a> was also annulled, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The court scheduled the retrial of the appeal filed by organized crime prosecutors, DIICOT, for November 12. Arrangements are expected to be made for the rapper to participate by videoconference.<\/p>\n<p>Wiz Khalifa was prosecuted in October 2024 for illegally possessing cannabis for personal use. Prosecutors said he had 18.53 grams of cannabis and a cannabis cigarette at the Costine\u0219ti festival in July of that year.<\/p>\n<p>The Constan\u021ba Tribunal initially fined him RON 3,600, but DIICOT appealed and subsequently obtained the nine-month prison sentence. The case was later transferred from Constan\u021ba to Bucharest at the rapper\u2019s request.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bucharest Court of Appeal has overturned the prison sentence issued against American rapper Wiz Khalifa for possessing and smoking cannabis at a Romanian festival in 2024, News.ro reported. The court granted his extraordinary appeal and ordered a new hearing of the case. The ruling canceled a December 2025 decision by the Constan\u021ba Court of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}