Al Capone concurrently. New lawyers hired to represent Capone were Washington-based tax experts. They filed a writ of habeas corpus based on a Supreme Court ruling that tax evasion was not fraud, which apparently meant that Capone had been convicted on charges relating to years that were actually outside the time limit for prosecution. However, a judge interpreted the law so that the time that Capone had spent in Miami was subtracted from the age of the offences, thereby denying the appeal of both Capone's conviction and sentence. Capone was sent to Atlanta U.S. Penitentiary in May 1932, aged 33. Upon his
Capone-N-Noreaga several tracks was released in 2004, entitled "What Up 2 Da Hood Thugged Out", Later that year, the duo found itself implicated in a non-fatal shooting between rival hip-hop groups, one of which included fellow Brooklyn-based rapper Lil' Kim, after a chance encounter outside New York radio station Hot 97. Capone-n-Noreaga have denied any involvement in the shooting, for which the group was not charged. In early 2005, Def Jam released Capone from his contract while retaining N.O.R.E.; Capone released his solo debut album "Pain, Time, and Glory", later the same year. In 2006, N.O.R.E. brought up the possibility of