GA - Rapper Young + others indicted on RICO & other charges, May 2022. Trial ongoing April 2023, interruptions, lawyer arrested. Fulton County. #2

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It took 16 days, spaced out over nearly three months, but on Tuesday the state’s key witness in the ongoing gang and racketeering trial of Atlanta rapper Young and five others was excused from the stand.

Jurors in the 21-month-long trial will have to decide whether they believe Kenneth Copeland’s courtroom testimony, in which he said he repeatedly lied to authorities, or if they trust instead what he told police over a series of interviews years ago where he implicated Young as the head of a violent criminal gang Young Slime Life.

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https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/what...-the-young--trial/NW22GOVAQ5DPPDSGWNGMY42CAY/

By Jozsef Papp and Shaddi Abusaid
16 hours ago

 

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Sledge said he knows Kenneth Copeland, Young , Shannon Stillwell, Deamonte Kendrick, Damekion Garlington, Quindarious Zachary, Quantavious Grier (Young 's brother).Sledge said he doesn't know Rodalius Ryan and only knows of Marquavius Huey and Quamarvious Nichols.

Sledge testified that he met Young when the rapper was only 16-years-old.Sledge said he met Shannon Stillwell around 2014-2015.