Young Thug and YSL’s RICO Trial Finally Commences: Mistrial Request Denied on Day One

The Young Thug YSL RICO trial acquired underway on Monday, and it was fairly eventful. 

Chief Deputy District Lawyer Adriane Love opened up for the prosecution, instantly calling Thug and his YSL gang for working their felony enterprise for years. One of essentially the most damning moments was her allegations that Thug was the chief who known as the pictures for a number of crimes, together with robberies and murders.  

Nonetheless, throughout her presentation, Love made the error of tying the “Take It To Trial” rapper with a separate case that Decide Glanville beforehand dominated towards, per the Washington Post. The protection slammed Love for this transfer and claimed they weren’t given entry to a number of of the slides in her presentation. A previous court docket ruling ordered that the protection and prosecution should change all supplies they deliberate to make use of within the trial. 

One other slip-up that raised critical issues among the many choose and the protection was “burden-shifting.” This was as a consequence of Love stating, “What you will not hear any evidence of is that the defendants were not involved in a criminal street gang.” The protection objected to this, which Glanville sustained. 

“What you will not hear any evidence of is that the defendants were not involved in a criminal street gang.”

My jaw truly dropped when the DA mentioned this in her opening within the Young Thug trial. That is the sort of burden shifting that results in convictions being overturned. pic.twitter.com/TP6Pm3tEZq

— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) November 27, 2023

Such blunders led the protection to request a mistrial. As anticipated, this movement was denied. The trial will reconvene on Tuesday, and extra bombshells are anticipated. Music lyrics, which have been addressed on day one, will doubtless proceed to return up all through the proceedings. YSL affiliate Antonio “Mounk Tounk” Sledge will quickly take the stand to element the January 2015 of Donovan Thomas Jr., who was killed outdoors of a barber store. He beforehand admitted to realizing one YSL member who killed Thomas on behalf of Thug and the gang and being paid by Thug to keep up a low profile after the homicide. 

Thug has maintained his innocence.