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

[arielilane]

Whitaker asked the state to have witnesses ready just in case Copeland can't testify.

No jury next week.

Since the jury is out for the day, Whitaker is taking up Young 's motion in limine about the PowerPoint from Detective Dennis.

Glanville had already ruled that the PowerPoint would be excluded.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1823417252177211619

Whitaker is giving the state until Friday to go through the PowerPoint and remove the stuff that needs to be redacted.


“Y’all have got to kinda get a handle on what your case is going to be,” Whitaker told the state.


Whitaker is a bit skeptical about how the state plans to play the interviews by muting or fast forward through the parts that have been redacted.


Court is done for the day.

 

[arielilane]

Looks like Woody's ready.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1823711385018360055

 

[arielilane]

@JozsefPapp_

Similar to how they did back in June, with the testimony that was stricken from the record, the state has started to play the lengthy interviews of Kenneth Copeland with police.First interview: Jan. 11, 2015 - the day after Donovan Thomas’ death.

Just as the interview was started to get played, Judge Whitaker said one of the jurors needed to deal with something “real fast” so a break was called.


Copeland’s new lawyer is present in court today.


Judge Whitaker is back on the stand and the state will continue to play the interview.


The problem was that they needed to find a way for Copeland to watch and listen to the video being played.“Thank you for your patience, I can’t even imagine how many times yall have already been told that over the course of this trial,” Whitaker told jurors.


The state is done playing the Jan. 11, 2015 interview.