Wiz Khalifa’s Romanian Prison Sentence Was Annulled. His Case Isn’t Over

Wiz Khalifa has won a significant reversal in his Romanian cannabis case: the Bucharest Court of Appeal annulled his nine-month prison sentence on November 3 and canceled the associated enforcement warrant. But the court also scheduled another hearing. This is relief from that judgment, not an acquittal or the end of the prosecution.

The distinction is explicit in the court’s short ruling as reproduced by Romanian news agencies AGERPRES and News.ro. It sets November 12 at 4 p.m. local time for reconsideration of the appeal brought by organized-crime prosecutors, DIICOT. The court directed steps to arrange Khalifa’s participation by videoconference; that is not confirmation that he will travel to Romania.

What changed—and what did not

There are two separate questions here: whether the December 2025 prison judgment remains in force, and what the courts will ultimately decide about the underlying case. The new ruling answers the first by setting that judgment aside. The scheduled rehearing leaves the second unresolved. Describing the development simply as ‘charges dropped’ would erase the part of the order keeping the appeal alive.

How a festival incident became a prison judgment

The case began at the Beach, Please! festival in Costinești in July 2024. Prosecutors alleged that Khalifa possessed 18.53 grams of cannabis and a cannabis cigarette for personal use. Police detained him after the performance; he was subsequently released and left the country. The charge concerned possession for personal consumption, not an allegation of drug trafficking.

A lower court initially imposed a criminal fine of 3,600 Romanian lei in April 2025. Prosecutors appealed for a tougher punishment, and the Constanța Court of Appeal imposed the nine-month prison term that December. On February 26, 2026, that court rejected an earlier effort to annul the sentence as inadmissible and declined to suspend it. That earlier setback is background—not the current outcome.

The later challenge followed a change of venue. After Khalifa sought to move the proceedings, Romania’s High Court sent the annulment case to Bucharest. Tuesday’s decision there set aside the December 18, 2025 judgment. The next hearing concerns the prosecutors’ appeal; it is not a newly announced arrest, a completed prison term or a reported release from a Romanian prison this week.

His earlier response is not a new statement

Khalifa’s public response to the original incident was conciliatory. In July 2024, he said he had not intended to disrespect Romania by smoking onstage, described the officers as respectful and said they had let him go. Those remarks explain his response at the time. They should not be repackaged as a fresh statement about this week’s court decision.

The Black Angle’s view: report the reversal without overstating it

The Black Angle’s view: celebrity legal coverage needs to follow reversals as carefully as it follows the initial punishment. Leaving a nine-month sentence in the present tense after it has been annulled gives readers an outdated picture. Calling the rapper fully cleared would make the opposite error. A fair account can recognize a meaningful legal victory without predicting how the renewed appeal will end.

What comes next

The next concrete checkpoint is November 12. The reported short order does not establish the eventual penalty or explain the full reasoning behind the annulment. Until there is another ruling, the accurate update is that the prison judgment and enforcement warrant have been canceled, while the case continues.