From the am:
Day 3 Court was in session until almost 8:30pm last night in #YoungThug #YSL trial. Jury was sent home at 6pm, but the parties argued over the state's first witness and his slide presentation. The state had not turned over that presentation to all of the defense attorneys
Judge Glanville was once again not happy with the prosecution. Their first witness will be detective Mark Belknap who Glanville has qualified as a gang expert. He apparently has 70 ish slides to use in his testimony. Glanville excluded some of the slides.
Court is set to begin at 9:30 this morning, but we all know how that goes…..
Per @InfamousSylvia , Judge Glanville asked the attorneys to be in place by 9:30 so they can start at 10am. We also know this court starts whenever…..
Williams turned around chatting with co-defendant Shannon Stillwell and Stillwell's attorney Max Schardt.
in green today.
Detective Mark Belknap is the state's first witness. He is a fact witness and also qualified as a gang expert. Today he'll be testifying as a gang expert. Later in the trial, he'll be called as a fact witness to testify about the investigation.
Sidebar. You see #YoungThug with his finger to his ear...he's holding in a headphone. The defendants have headphones on their tables so they can listen to the sidebars.
Belknap: Non-traditional gangs are usually based in neighborhoods. They'll have specific identifiers but likely less than a traditional gang. Because they are local, they don't really have a hierarchy to answer to so they may change up their colors/signs.
Now showing "gang triangle" used by gang experts. We've seen this many times in trials.
Belknap: There different ways to get into a gang. 1. Beat into a gang, taking a physical beating. 2. Blessed into the gang. 3. Sexed into a gang, typical for female members.
Day 3 Court was in session until almost 8:30pm last night in #YoungThug #YSL trial. Jury was sent home at 6pm, but the parties argued over the state's first witness and his slide presentation. The state had not turned over that presentation to all of the defense attorneys
Judge Glanville was once again not happy with the prosecution. Their first witness will be detective Mark Belknap who Glanville has qualified as a gang expert. He apparently has 70 ish slides to use in his testimony. Glanville excluded some of the slides.
Court is set to begin at 9:30 this morning, but we all know how that goes…..
Per @InfamousSylvia , Judge Glanville asked the attorneys to be in place by 9:30 so they can start at 10am. We also know this court starts whenever…..
Williams turned around chatting with co-defendant Shannon Stillwell and Stillwell's attorney Max Schardt.
in green today. Detective Mark Belknap is the state's first witness. He is a fact witness and also qualified as a gang expert. Today he'll be testifying as a gang expert. Later in the trial, he'll be called as a fact witness to testify about the investigation.
Sidebar. You see #YoungThug with his finger to his ear...he's holding in a headphone. The defendants have headphones on their tables so they can listen to the sidebars.
Belknap: Non-traditional gangs are usually based in neighborhoods. They'll have specific identifiers but likely less than a traditional gang. Because they are local, they don't really have a hierarchy to answer to so they may change up their colors/signs.
Now showing "gang triangle" used by gang experts. We've seen this many times in trials.
Belknap: There different ways to get into a gang. 1. Beat into a gang, taking a physical beating. 2. Blessed into the gang. 3. Sexed into a gang, typical for female members.
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