Young Thug is challenging a piece of evidence tied to a home shooting in his ongoing YSL RICO case.
According to AllHipHop, the Atlanta rapper and his legal team are fighting against the inclusion of a Ring doorbell recording in which Thug’s voice can allegedly be heard at the scene of the crime.
The shooting took place in Southwest Atlanta in March 2022 where a house was riddled with 10 bullets. In the investigation of the shooting, an officer utilized the Ring doorbell to communicate with an individual at the house and the officer’s body camera picked up the entire conversation.
This same officer claimed that it was Young Thug’s voice in the recording — a notion that his legal team is refuting. Thug’s lawyer Brian Steel is looking to ban the evidence from being included in the RICO case altogether.
The case, which accuses Thug’s YSL collective of being a “criminal street gang,” has seen many peculiar and unfortunate twists and turns since arrests were first made in May 2022.
Last week, Thugga (real name Jeffrey Williams) had a medical emergency while he was in court and the proceedings were halted as he was rushed to a nearby hospital.
“I know he’s had some difficulty of a similar sort at the Cobb County Jail a few months ago, and so I’m obviously concerned about his wellbeing,” his attorney, Keith Adams, told judge Ural Glanville.
“Mr. Williams is sleep deprived, mandated to wake up on court days between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. and not having more than five hours of sleep per night. By the end of the week, Mr. Williams is fighting to pay attention to the goings on in his case.”
Due to medical privacy laws, details about Young Thug’s illness were not released to the public. However, Judge Glanville did grant Adams permission to visit his client in the hospital.
Earlier in May, one of Thug’s co-defendants was severed from the case after being diagnosed with…
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