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

[arielilane]

YSL Young Racketeering Trial/Law&Crime trial livestream here:

Law & Crime Live Stream – WSB-TV Channel 2 - Atlanta

www.wsbtv.com

 

[arielilane]

@jewelwickershow

Love alleges YSL affiliates shot at Lil Wayne's tour bus while the rapper was in Atlanta for a performance "for nothing, except to show their dominance.” “Thee will be no evidence that Lil Wayne threatened either of them that night," she says.


3:31 PM · Nov 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

@neonflag

As it happened, one of the state's better gang investigators happened to be working an off-duty job at Compound and saw the YSL guys coming, which is how the cops were able to connect the bus shooting quickly to the YSL-IF/ABG/YFN beef.


3:29 PM · Nov 27, 2023


Your gentle reminder, my good reader: shootings on highways are almost never random acts of violence. When they are, they're even more unusual than usual. Gangsters like freeway hits because they're usually hard to prevent, hard to see coming and hard for the cops to investigate.


3:31 PM · Nov 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

@neonflag

They are showing a picture of Donovan Thomas, dead, to the jury.


3:33 PM · Nov 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

@jewelwickershow

Prosecutors show a photo of a deceased Thomas” on a slideshow alongside the lyrics “we known to kill the biggest cats of all kittens.”She also displayed the lyrics "hundred rounds in a Tahoe," noting that Thomas was driving a Tahoe when he was killed. He car was hit by bullets.


3:35 PM · Nov 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

@neonflag

"We don't speak 'bout on wax. It's all mob business," says the slide. Lyrics from Young 's "Just How It Is." "Hundred rounds in a Tahoe," Love says, using lyrics from "Slime ." Donovan Thomas drove a Tahoe.


3:35 PM · Nov 27, 2023


Love is describing Christian Eppinger, who has been severed from the case after a question of misconduct by his counsel. Eppinger is accused of shooting a cop six times when being arrested, and of trying to assassinate YFN Lucci in jail.


3:38 PM · Nov 27, 2023

Eppinger apparently got a YSL tattoo on his face when he was 15.


3:40 PM · Nov 27, 2023



Love argues that YSL members blew *half* the head off of Dexter Montgomery, who survived the shooting. Montgomery apparently drew fire because he drove too close to them at a gas station.


3:43 PM · Nov 27, 2023

Apparently, YSL gang members made threats against The Game? That's the first I'd heard of that.


3:43 PM · Nov 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

@jewelwickershow

In another incident, Love says a man “lost literally half of his head” when he was shot after a YSL member felt he was following behind his car too closely. The man survived.


3:42 PM · Nov 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

@neonflag

"There are numerous victims you're going to hear about," Love says, beginning her discussion of Shannon Stillwell. Apparently, two YSL gang members will testify against Stillwell and name him as one of the shooters in the Nut driveby.


3:45 PM · Nov 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

@neonflag

Love says police thoroughly investigated the Donovan Thomas murder, pressing for additional investigation because they were unconvinced by the initial evidence. Keep this in mind: prosecutors are telegraphing that they've flipped *many* gang members in this prosecution.


3:47 PM · Nov 27, 2023


Love was about to argue that the shootings started to slow down when cops started rolling up YSL gang members late into 2015. That argument was shut down by Glanville as argumentative.


3:49 PM · Nov 27, 2023


The murder of Shymel Drinks has been lower profile in this case, which I find disturbing. Love says there's gas station video of Drinks and Stillwell at the station, and that Stillwell was on an ankle monitor placing him at the scene of the crime when and where Drinks was killed.


3:52 PM · Nov 27, 2023


I didn't know about the ankle monitor. That's ... whew.


3:53 PM · Nov 27, 2023


Stillwell and Eppinger are accused of trying to shank Lucci in jail, with Eppinger asking for permission for a second shot.


3:55 PM · Nov 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

https://www.11alive.com/article/new...ments/85-e985c5b3-6ead-48a0-8957-2dc44515d70b

Updated: 2:10 PM EST November 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

Rapper #YoungThug (real name Jeffery Williams) & five others stand trial - opening statements begin today! Williams is charged under a sprawling RICO indictment which accuses him of running a criminal gang called YSL.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1729242513066594716

 

[arielilane]

LIVE: Young , YSL RICO Trial Day 1 | What to know about the case
LIVE: Young , YSL RICO Trial Day 1 | What to know about the case

https://twitter.com/x/status/1729236310848573817

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Who is Young ?​

Young ’s eccentric style and mumble rap — along with breakout hits such as "Stoner" and "Best Friend" — have made him popular. His squeaky high-pitched vocals can be heard in the background of Childish Gambino’s "This is America," a social-political hit that became the first hip-hop track to win the song of the year Grammy Award.

Young won a Grammy in 2019 for his co-writing efforts on the track, which included 21 Savage, Quavo, BlocBoy JB, Slim Jxmmi of the duo Rae Sremmurd. He has had several mixtapes and three studio albums including his recent "Business is Business" music project, which was released in June.


Full article at link ...

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/a...them&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

Updated November 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

@jewelwickershow

Love says YSL’s Jayden Myrick was at the Fulton County jail at the same time as YSL rival YFN Lucci. She says Myrick reached out to to “take [Lucci] out.” Myrick then attempted to stab Lucci to death but was unsuccessful.


3:56 PM · Nov 27, 2023


The state has wrapped it's opening statements.


4:04 PM · Nov 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

@neonflag

Love is wrapping up, asking the jury to take notes and to be independent in their analysis and conclusions. She's priming them to expect witnesses to lie about what they remember.


3:56 PM · Nov 27, 2023


The enterprise "had nothing to do at all with the record label ... except that it made the music more real and more appealing to somebody," Love said.


4:00 PM · Nov 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

Attorneys for the defendants have argued that YSL is a music label, not a gang.

The trial began on Nov. 27, after jury selection took ten months and faced a number of challenges, including an incident where contraband was brought to court.

https://www.courttv.com/news/ga-v-williams-et-al-young-🤬🤬🤬🤬-rico-trial/

November 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

@jewelwickershow

Maxwell Schardt, who represents defendant Shannon Stillwell is up next with his opening statements.


4:26 PM · Nov 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

@jewelwickershow

Schardt says his client, Stillwell, is "an innocent man.” He says he's not guilty of either of the two murders he's accused of committing.


4:33 PM · Nov 27, 2023


Stillwell was raised by his paternal grandmother in the Forest Cove apartments after his mother had succumbed to drug addiction. Stillwell eventually dropped out of school with the hopes of becoming a rapper at 14.


4:36 PM · Nov 27, 2023

 

[arielilane]

@neonflag

Max Schardt, representing Shannon Stillwell, will open for the defense in the YSL trial. He has a working-lawyer's straight talk and a high-fee trial attorney's flair for performance. Should be interesting.


4:26 PM · Nov 27, 2023


Shannon Stillwell stands as Schardt proclaims him an innocent man. "He is not guilty. He has been accused of conspiring to violate Georgia's racketeering law. He is not guilty."


4:29 PM · Nov 27, 2023


Schardt notes that Stillwell was suspected of killing Donovan Thomas in 2015 but never charged, and that the suspicion around the murder of Drinks in 2022 stems from that earlier untried case. We claim innocence "with our backs straight and our eyes wide open," Schardt says.


4:33 PM · Nov 27, 2023

 

[Chelly]

Atty Max Schardt is easy to listen to, thank goodness. IMO

 

[arielilane]

@jewelwickershow

Schardt tells jurors about a man who, under a fake name, identified his client as one of the men who shot at Thomas. He says surveillance footage will show that the man was not where he says he was when he witnessed the killing.


4:58 PM · Nov 27, 2023


Schardt says a number of the state's witnesses, including the one above, cooperated with law enforcement while in custody and hoping to procure favorable outcomes for themselves.


5:00 PM · Nov 27, 2023