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

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NINE Co-defendants pleasin #YSL RICO trial: Sergio Kitchens aka Gunna acknowledged #YSL is a gang. He has knowledge that some members have committed crimes.


Gunna plea: "I recognize, accept and deeply regret that my talent and music indirectly furthered YSL the gang to the detriment of my community. #YSL as a gang must end." Sentenced to 5 years with 1 year commuted to time served and the rest suspended.

Gunna plea: 500 community service hours, 350 of which must involve speaking w/young people about the dangers of gangs. Must testify truthfully if called upon, however in a statement to the media his attorney said he would plead the 5th.

Walter Murphy aka DK plea: Murphy admitted he was the co-founder of #YSL. He pleaded guilty to 1 RICO count. 1 year time served, 9 years probation. Murphy has agreed to “testify truthfully in any further trial as it may become necessary”

Wunnie Lee aka Slimelife Shawty plea: 1 RICO count. 1 year time served, 9 years probation. He may be called to testify, his attorney said if he is he will tell the truth but added, that “may or may not help the person asking the questions”

Martinez Arnold aka Lil Duke plea: 1 RICO count. 1 year time served, 9 years probation. As part of the deal Arnold will testify “truthfully” if asked to at trial but reserves the right to invoke the Fifth. He was not required to acknowledge that #YSL is a gang.

Quantavious Grier aka Unfoonk plea: Unfoonk is #YoungThug's brother. Pleaded guilty to 2 counts. Time esrved plus 10 yrs probation. No contact with brother. 750 hours of community service. Must testify if called but reserves the right to plead the 5th.

Antonio Sumlin aka Obama plea: 1 Rico count, 2 conspiracy counts. 15 years probation. As part of the deal, Sumlin will testify truthfully if asked to during trial but reserves the right to invoke the 5th.

Antonio Sledge aka Mounk Tounk plea: He will testify if called and CANNOT plead the fifth. He has signed off on statements that #YSL is a gang, he agreed to testify to drive-by shootings, murders, etc… and knowledge/involvement of Williams aka #YoungThug.

Trontavious Stephens aka Tick aka Slug plea: 10 years, 2 yrs served, 8 years probation. He has to testify if called and cannot invoke 5th on the acknowledgments he made in writing.

Derontae Bebee aka Bee aka B plea: As part of his negotiated plea, Bebee was sentenced to 15 years, with five years in prison and 10 years on probation.

 
Afternoon in #YSL #YoungThug RICO trial. Court is back in session. Prosecutor Love says she has fixed errors in her powerpoint presentation. WATCH LIVE:

Right out of the gate, Judge Glanville is upset. Apparently, the state made edits of the powerpoint but didn't tell the defense they had done it or what they were. Judge Glanville: Ya'll need to listen to the court's orders!

You think this is a mess now, can you imagine that the state wanted to try at least 21 defendants together when jury selection started???

Judge will NOT allow the state's or defense teams' powerpoint presentations in their openings. (Not sure why the defense is being punished on theirs..)

The defense teams are arguing that they did what the judge asked them to do. They sent their powerpoint presentations to the state and all other defendants last week and do not think it's fair that the judge won't allow them to use.

Judge Glanville's loud sighs into the microphone tell you all you need to know about his frustration.

Judge Ural Glanville background: Glanville was sworn in as the chief judge, Atlanta judicial circuit, on Dec. 2022. He served in the Army. He was a Brigadier General of U.S Army Court of Criminal Appeals. Former prosecutor, private practice, law professor and more. READ: https://fultoncourt.org/judge/judge-ural-glanville-chief-judge

Sounds like judge is now leaning to allowing some slides.............stand by.
Judge to Yak Gotti's attorney: Have your client put on his shoes.(Shoes are required in court)


Judge Glanville wants the attorneys referring to exhibit numbers by using the military alphabet codes, IE: Alpha, Beta, Charlie, etc.. He's place the full list on the tables.

Judge is now going to allow edited/redacted versions of the slides/powerpoint.


It's 2:45pm and the state has yet to complete their opening statement. The jury has been out of the room since 12:20pm and was out for awhile before that.


NOW the jury is being brought in.


Jury in #YSL: 12 = 7 Black women, 2 Black men, 2 white women, 1 white man. Plus 6 alternates. 18 total jurors in the courtroom.

I have meetings the rest of the afternoon. Follow @jewelwickershow @neonflag and @SeidenWSBTV for #YSL trial updates.

 
@neonflag

Love is describing the murder of Jamari Holmes by Rodalius Ryan and Damone Blaylock. Ryan was 15 when he shot Holmes dead after luring him and another there with some girls. Both have been convicted of the murders and sentenced for them."I bet YSL make the news" Ryan posted.


2:57 PM · Nov 27, 2023


Ryan has asked for a new trial on his murder charges, and a hearing to determine if it will be granted is to be held in January. Ryan has been a ... difficult ... prisoner. "Rodalius Ryan didn't post 'I' make the news. He posted I bet YSL make the news," Love says.


3:01 PM · Nov 27, 2023



Love is now describing Marquavious Huey and stolen handguns. "YSL members, stolen handguns whenever you turn around," she said. "Some of these defendants were found at the home of Jeffery Williams, their leader, not just with guns but with a machine gun."


3:03 PM · Nov 27, 2023
 
Marquavious Huey is accused of hijacking Gary Holliman's car and robbing him. Holliman is dead (for reasons having nothing to do with this case) and can't testify. But the case allowed the police to exploit Huey's phone, learning more about the conspiracy, Love argues.

3:07 PM · Nov 27, 2023

@neonflag

Let's step back a moment.It's not that these people committed these crimes that leads the prosecution to argue today. Her argument is that these crimes are connected through a conspiracy to promote the interests of the YSL street gang, by legitimizing them as feared criminals.


3:09 PM · Nov 27, 2023
 
@neonflag

"It's not a crime to flash a YSL sign. It's not a crime to participate in a video call," Love says, describing a call between Young , Hard Nard and Huey. "It's not a crime to help someone in jail. They're not listed in the case as crimes, but as overt acts."


3:12 PM · Nov 27, 2023
 
"Another YSL associate will tell you that Jeffrey Williams gave them money to lay low."I strongly suspect that person is Lil' Woody, Kenneth Copeland, whose absence in court is conspicuous.


3:15 PM · Nov 27, 2023


@neonflag

Young is watching all of this attentively, if impassively.


3:15 PM · Nov 27, 2023
 
Love says lyrics aren't central to the case, but have "an uncanny similarity" to the events of the case."We didn't start with lyrics," she said. "He tells you, as the evidence will show, 'take this s**t to motherf**king trial."


3:17 PM · Nov 27, 2023


@neonflag

She's highlighting the use of a Glock in Young 's lyrics, and how Williams had a Glock switch at his house.But, in his defense: half the guns in America are Glocks these days,


3:18 PM · Nov 27, 2023
 
@jewelwickershow

Love references a recorded jail video call where an associate says he needs something and Young motions to defendant Marquavious Huey to take care of it before flashing a YSL gang sign. She says this is evidence of an unspoken agreement to participate in the YSL enterprise.


3:14 PM · Nov 27, 2023

She also alleges that Williams rented a 2014 Siler infiniti Q50 sedan was used by the other defendants to “openly and notoriously” gun down Donovan Thomas.


3:16 PM · Nov 27, 2023


Love before referencing the lyrics of YSL's "Take it to Trial": “There’s been a lot of talk about lyrics…We didn’t chase any lyrics to solve any murders.” Instead, she said, law enforcement “chased the murders and found the lyrics” that point to true, specific crimes.


3:17 PM · Nov 27, 2023
 
@neonflag

Love has returned to talk about Donovan Thomas' life and the circumstances of his death, killed "notoriously" in a drive-by in front of a barbershop in Castleberry Hill in January 2015.Thomas' mother has been attending the trial, and just left the room.


3:23 PM · Nov 27, 2023


She's now describing how Lil' Woody was rolled for his bankroll at Club Crucial in early January 2015, and how the robbery of Kenneth Copeland by his opps led to the murder of Donovan Thomas and a series of retaliatory shootings.


3:25 PM · Nov 27, 2023
 
@jewelwickershow

Love says the killing of Donovan Thomas followed a fight at Club Crucial that involved a YSL affiliate. Thomas was outside of a barber shop, where he'd paid for kids to get their hair cut, when he was killed.


3:26 PM · Nov 27, 2023


“This act wasn’t done secretly, it was done openly. Notoriously. Almost as if to send a message. ‘We did it,'" Love says of the killing of Thomas.


3:26 PM · Nov 27, 2023



Love says a series of retaliatory shootings followed the killing of Thomas. The home of YFN Lucci's mom was shot at twice. Lucci's mother was actually shot one time.


3:27 PM · Nov 27, 2023
 
@neonflag

"Even as people were getting shot ... they weren't always forthcoming," Love said. "Not even if it would serve their own purposes. ... Members of YSL ultimately as a result of those retaliatory shootings ... ballistics matches were coming back to those shootings."


3:26 PM · Nov 27, 2023


The police began to match all the shootings to a small number of guns. When cops arrested Quindarius Zachary, he talked, leading them to the guns. Members of YSL were so eager, so gangster ... that when Lil' Wayne was playing in Atlanta, YSL showed up with guns: the bus shooting.


3:28 PM · Nov 27, 2023
 
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