Young Thug’s protection lawyer Keith Adams spoke out following an incident in court docket yesterday, the place fellow YSL co-defendant Kahlieff Adams allegedly gave the rapper a Percocet capsule.
His YSL co-defendant claims he was strip searched after court docket officers and surveillance video footage noticed what gave the impression to be a hand-to-hand alternate.
He was tased and overwhelmed as soon as taken to a again room within the courthouse, together with his accidents being so extreme that it required a visit to the emergency room.
Keith instructed WSB-TV that Thugger, born Jeffery Williams, did “nothing wrong and was passed something, but didn’t know what it was and immediately turned it over to a deputy.”
Khallief Adam’s additionally criticized officers’ for failing to activate their physique cameras, in accordance with his lawyer.
This is way from the primary time a grievance has been lodged in opposition to deputies. Last month, WSB-TV reported on one defendant’s declare in opposition to a member of sheriff’s specialised unit.
That officer is now on administrative duties, after the protection’s lawyer wrote a grievance accusing the officer of assaulting her shopper amidst a tussle.
Young Thug Attempts To Distance Himself From Courthouse Percocet Hand-Off
Meanwhile, Young Thug has performed every part doable to distance himself from the courthouse drug hand-off, together with his lawyer stating he had no clue concerning the Percocet his YSL co-defendant handed him.
“His side is the truth. The reality is Mr. Williams had nothing to do with what went on in the courtroom on yesterday. One of the co-defendants on his way to the restroom attempted to pass something to Mr. Williams, who immediately turned it over to the deputy,” Keith Adams stated.
When requested if Thug knew the capsule was a Percocet, his lawyer doubled down on the rapper’s ignorance concerning what was positioned in his hand by a co-defendant throughout a court docket look final week, all of which was reportedly captured on surveillance video.
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“He did not know. We don’t know what it is, did not know. It was turned over to a deputy right away,” Keith Adams defined.
Percocet Incident Is One Of Several Attempts To Pass Along Contraband To Embattled Rapper
According to a movement detailing the incident, Adams walked unattended to Williams and prolonged his closed proper hand to the rapper.
Williams then prolonged his open proper hand and accepted the merchandise, which was later discovered to be Percocet. Williams then closed his hand and positioned it beneath the desk the place he was seated.
Several different incidents of contraband allegedly introduced into the courthouse are inflicting delays within the jury choice course of within the trial in opposition to Atlanta rapper Young Thug and greater than a dozen different defendants.
Last week, Fulton County Chief Judge Ural Glanville stated an unidentified individual introduced clothes to one of many defendants with marijuana hidden within the footwear.
AJC reported on Tuesday a defendant’s mom was arrested after allegedly bringing “tobacco products” to her son in a bag of garments, in accordance with her arrest warrant.