If LisaRaye McCoy-Misick thinks she has become too classy to go Diamond on Premier
Michael Misick and was hoping her half sister Da Brat would crack a rum bottle over
the head of her rumored-to-be cheating husband, well, she’s going to have
to find someone else. Da Brat is going to the pokey.

According to the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

A DeKalb County judge sentenced rapper Da Brat to three years in prison Friday for
hitting an Atlanta Falcons cheerleader in the head with a nearly full liquor bottle
at an Atlanta-area nightclub.

Superior Court Judge Gail Flake also sentenced the rapper, whose real name is Shawntae
Harris, to seven years probation and 200 hours of community service. Harris also
must get substance abuse treatment and a mental evaluation and attend anger management
classes.

“She feels a great deal of remorse for what she did,” said Harris’s lawyer, Thomas
Clegg. “She is willing to accept responsibility for what she has done.”

A handful of Harris’s family sat on the back row of the courtroom. They wept when
a sheriff’s deputy took her into custody. “I love y’all,” Harris, 34, said as she
was led out of the courtroom.

“We love you too” the relatives replied in unison.

Dressed in black pants and top with her short hair in braids, Harris did not comment
other than to answer “yes” several times when the judge asked her if she understood
her guilty plea to a felony aggravated assault charge and her negotiated sentencing.

On the night of Oct. 31, 2007, Harris went to a private Halloween party at Studio
72, a Lawrenceville Highway nightclub owned by rap mogul Jermaine Dupri. At some
point she bumped into Shayla Stevens, an Atlanta Falcons cheerleader working as
a hostess at the event.

Moments later, Harris struck Stevens in the head with a nearly full bottle of rum,
prosecutors said. Stevens fell down some stairs to a cement floor and suffered a
severe facial cut. Stevens has a permanent scar, the judge said Friday in noting
the severity of the attack.

Stevens was in court but did not speak or talk to reporters.

In a separate civil case, Stevens is suing Harris for unspecified medical and other
costs. The case is pending.

It was not Harris’s first brush with trouble. In March 2000, Atlanta police arrested
Harris after she struck a woman at a Buckhead bar. She was sentenced to 12 months
of probation.

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