A witness slated to testify within the Younger Thug YSL RICO trial insists he might die from sickness if he is pressured to take the stand.
YSL Witness Claims Testifying May Kill Him
On Wednesday (Sept. 18), Day 132 of the Younger Thug YSL trial went down in Fulton County Superior Court docket. In the course of the listening to, Decide Paige Reese Whitaker heard from the legal professional of a person set to testify on the trial who informed the court docket his shopper has been hospitalized and is on heavy remedy, including he’s so sick taking the stand to testify might kill him.
“He is in a state of affairs the place if he will get put below a annoying state of affairs, he could have a crash. Will probably be a disaster state of affairs and he shall be again [in the hospital],” the legal professional informed Decide Whitaker. “I spoke to him,” the legal professional continued. “He made a press release 10 years in the past. He stated, ‘I do not bear in mind what occurred yesterday, generally.’ So, he is in a nasty state of affairs.”
Lead prosecutor Adrienne Love countered the legal professional’s claims. She informed the court docket she spoke with the witness’ physician who stated he’s sick however match to take the stand. Decide Whitaker agreed that the witness ought to testify and they might have a medical staff on standby, which solely brought about his legal professional to double all the way down to no avail.
“That is positive,” he added. “So long as the court docket understands, if he is made to come back right here, and put in a disaster state of affairs, he might die.”
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The YSL RICO trial is already the longest trial in Georgia historical past and the saga is way from over. Most just lately, star prosecution witness YSL Woody took up a big portion of the trial. After beforehand giving police details about Younger Thug whereas being questioned by police on a number of events, he appeared to do every part in his energy to not incriminate Thugger on the stand. At one level, he even claimed he lied on Thug in earlier conversations with authorities simply to get them off his again.
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