Young Thug's RICO trial resumed Monday with the threat of a mistrial hinging on the jury's reaction to news they must disregard testimony
Atlanta rapper Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, speaks with his attorney Brian Steel, right, during a motion hearing as the new Judge Paige Reese Whitaker presides after taking over the trial Tuesday, July 30, 2024, at the Fulton County courtroom in Atlanta.’s gang and racketeering trial Monday as the contentious proceeding resumed in earnest with jurors returning from a nearly two-month break.
Depending on Copeland’s decision, jurors were set to be instructed to disregard either all or a portion of his prior testimony and any evidence related to his testimony. The, Judge Paige Reese Whitaker, said she was planning to then ask the jurors if they felt capable of following such an instruction. The judge said she wanted to know sooner rather than later if the response from any of the jurors might be, “I just cannot do that.
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