Attorneys in the RICO case against YSL rapper Young Thug estimate the trial could take nine months or longer to complete. | 3D Animation Production Company/Pixabay
Attorneys in the RICO case against YSL rapper Young Thug estimate the trial could take nine months or longer to complete. | 3D Animation Production Company/Pixabay
Attorneys on both sides of the RICO case against Young Slime Life rapper Young Thug and others have begun the jury selection process.
The timeline could last as long as nine months for the trial to complete, given the high number of witnesses and defendants in the case and the wide area of terrain to be legally covered; a recent FOX 5 Atlanta report said. While Fulton County Judge Ural Glanville estimated that the trial involving Young Thug could stretch on for six to nine months, the low end of the estimate was double the three-month time frame prosecutors provided and the high end was based on another RICO Act case in Fulton County.
With debates continuing, one Fulton County prosecutor said a six-to-twelve-month estimation would be a "safer path" when it comes to jury selection; FOX 5 reported.
"You're going to lose a number of people that cannot be jurors for that amount of time, so I'd like to give them a realistic range," Glanville told FOX 5.
Young Thug, whose legal name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, was indicted along with 27 others earlier this year using the state's RICO Act which charged that the defendants are part of a street gang known as Young Slime Life or YSL.
With the trial now delayed until March at the request of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, lawyers for Williams have long insisted that YSL is not a gang and that artistic expression does not imply they are complicit in criminal activity.
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