'Witness can clear rapper in assault case'

A lawyer for Tony Yayo of the hip-hop group G-Unit told a judge in the US today that he has a witness who swears the rapper is innocent of slapping and punching a rival’s 14-year-old son.

Lawyer Scott Leemon said the witness, whose name he withheld, gave him a sworn statement saying he knows the teenager and Yayo and saying the boy was hit by another man, as yet unidentified.