The YSL RICO trial involving Young Thug and Gunna may characteristic as many as 300 individuals testifying in opposition to the rappers and their associates and will take greater than a half a 12 months to full.
On Thursday (Nov. 17), one other pre-trial listening to was held in connection to the YSL RICO case. During the listening to, Young Thug’s lawyer Brian Steel made a brand new request for bond and was searching for to dismiss one of many indictments the rapper is going through, in accordance to 11Alive News. The listening to additionally reportedly featured the State revealing they’ve lots of of witnesses prepared to take the stand in opposition to Thug and his crew.
“The state says it will be calling 300 witnesses during the YSL trial, and may require three and a half months. Judge Glanville thinks it will take longer,” The Atlanta Objective journalist George Chidi, who has been masking the case carefully, reported on Twitter on Thursday. “Glanville thinks it’s probably closer to six to nine months,” he added in a follow-up tweet.
Young Thug and Gunna have been in jail since they have been arrested in May together with 26 different associates of YSL in an enormous RICO case that prices the group with really being violent road gang that’s liable for quite a few crimes within the Atlanta space. They have each been denied bond on a number of events, with the decide labeling them a menace to the general public.
During Thursday’s listening to, the State additionally requested to have the beginning of the trial date pushed again till March. The movement was reportedly shut down by Judge Glanville, who famous the trial will begin on its authentic date of Jan. 9, 2023.
XXL has reached out to Young Thug’s lawyer and the Fulton County District Attorney for remark.
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