Incarcerated rappers Young Thug and Gunna seem like in good spirits in keeping with newly-released jail images, whereas the pair stay behind bars for a lot of the yr as they await the outcomes of their RICO case.
On Thursday (November 17), Young Thug and Gunna made appearances at courtroom hearings, with each trying to be in good spirits, with Thugger even flashing a smile in what seems to be a zoom courtroom convention name.
According to Billboard, prosecutors had requested the decide to delay the trial for 2 months.
Judge Denies Prosecutors Request To Move Trial Date, With Jury Selection Scheduled For January 5
The trial is scheduled to start in January, however prosecutors wished it pushed again till March, arguing that 28 of the defendants had not but obtained attorneys.
However, a decide finally denied their request, with jury choice reported to start out on January 5.
Meanwhile, Thugger and Gunna have each petitioned for bond a number of instances, and had been denied on every event.
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The outlet additionally studies that there aren’t sufficient court-appointed legal professionals to signify the massive quantities of defendants within the case – 28 in whole.
Gunna’s attorneys allegedly stated they’d be in search of a fourth bond listening to, with authorities claiming the 2 rappers are too harmful to be launched, having voiced issues that they might threaten witnesses, in keeping with Billboard.
Prosecutors Cite Rappers’ Violent Lyrics, Request To Use Them During Trial
Last month, Thug’s lawyer Brian Steel informed the courtroom it was “unjust that (Thugger) rots in county jail,” and that it “has been too long to leave a human being in custody without trial.”
“It is unjust that Mr. Williams rots in the county jail and … is being required to wait on the appointment of counsel for co-indictees,” Young Thug’s lawyer Brian Steel, said again in October. “It has been too long to leave a human being in custody without trial, without discovery, without the statutory right to a speedy trial and without bond.”
Prosecutors have additionally cited the rappers’ violent lyrics, claiming Young Thug alluded to or outright confessed to crimes in his songs. While the state needs to make use of these lyrics as proof, his well-known colleagues are rallying in opposition to it.
State Intends On Calling Upwards Of 300 Witnesses, Which Will Take Months Of Testimony
Earlier this week, The Shade Room reported that the state intends on calling upwards of 300 witnesses, which can seemingly take months of testimony.
We additionally solely broke a story on Young Thug’s movement to dismiss his case.
Young Thug‘s lawyers are looking to have his RICO case dismissed based on a technicality, accusing the district attorney of filing “sham” and “fake” grand jury subpoenas as the rap star continues to languish in Georgia’s Cobb County Jail, The Shade Room can solely report.
On November 3, Brian Steel of The Steel Law Firm, who’s representing Thugger, filed a movement to dismiss all costs in opposition to their consumer on grounds of prosecutors abusing “it’s authority by utilizing a sham Grand Jury Subpoena.”