Prosecutors search February trial for five remaining defendants indicted with rapper Younger Thug

A remaining plea listening to for the 5 is ready for Dec. 17 and Willis filed a movement Friday asking {that a} trial start on Feb. 24. She estimates {that a} trial would final about three months.

A grand jury in Might 2022 indicted 28 individuals, together with Younger Thug, and charged them with racketeering. The indictment stated the rapper co-founded a violent road gang that dedicated a number of murders, shootings and carjackings over roughly a decade and promoted its actions in songs and on social media.

A trial for Younger Thug, whose given identify is Jeffery Williams, and 5 others started in November 2023 after it took practically 10 months to seat a jury. The rapper and three different defendants pleaded responsible in October. Younger Thug was freed on probation with a wide range of circumstances, together with an order to steer clear of the Atlanta space for a decade.

A jury on Tuesday discovered the 2 remaining defendants within the trial not responsible of racketeering, homicide and gang-related costs, although one in every of them was convicted on a gun cost.

9 of the defendants, together with the rapper Gunna, had accepted plea offers earlier than the trial started, and prosecutors dropped costs towards one defendant after he was convicted of homicide in an unrelated case.

That left a dozen defendants nonetheless going through costs after the trial. One pleaded responsible Wednesday after reaching a take care of prosecutors and prosecutors stated the identical day that they had been dropping the fees towards six others.

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