Young Thug YSL Trial Starts

Last year rapper Young Thug and 27 of his Young Slime Life associates were arrested on RICO charges in Fulton County [click here if you missed that].

Today the district attorney presented their opening arguments...

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

My jaw actually dropped when the DA said this in her opening in the Young Thug trial. This is the kind of burden shifting that leads to convictions being overturned. pic.twitter.com/TP6Pm3tEZq

— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) November 27, 2023

Fulton County Deputy District Attorney Adriane Love gets into Young Thug’s lyrics, telling jurors, “law enforcement didn’t chase the lyrics to solve the murders.”

“Law enforcement chased the murders and found the lyrics.” pic.twitter.com/vqEI1cgLv0

— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) November 27, 2023

Prosecutor says members of Young Thug’s YSL gang showed up at Lil Wayne’s show at the Compound in Atlanta locked and loaded, with guns.”

She said they were denied entry, so they waited for Wayne to leave and shot up his tour bus. pic.twitter.com/wsmOEhNBNB

— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) November 27, 2023