Lil Wayne's Sentencing Delayed Because of Dental Surgery

(New York Post) – Rapper Lil Wayne was not sentenced in his gun possession case as expected on Tuesday because he needed emergency dental surgery, prosecutors said.

Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said prosecutors consented to the delay to ensure that the rapper's medical health is satisfactory before he serves a year behind bars after pleading guilty to gun possession last year.

The rapper will now be sentenced March 2.

Although his plea deal calls for a year in jail, he could shave that to as little as eight months because of good behavior.

Lil Wayne, 27, pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon, admitting he illegally had a loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun on his tour bus in July 2007.

Police found the weapon when they stopped the bus after a Manhattan concert.