Rapper Young Thug remains at the center of one of the most complex, chaotic cases in Georgia’s history.
Jeffery Lamar Williams, left, who raps under the name Young Thug, sits with his attorney, Brian Steel, in March. An unwieldy RICO trial that could see Young Thug imprisoned for decades on gang charges veered toward chaos this week, when the rapper’s attorney wasLate Wednesday, the Georgia Supreme Court stayed enforcement of the contempt charge, meaning Young Thug’s lawyer, Brian Steel, will not go to jail on Friday as previously ordered.
He was born one of 11 children in the Atlanta housing projects on Cleveland Avenue, about five miles from the courthouse where he now spends his days, accused of running a violent criminal street gang under the guise of a record label.
Prosecutors considered using a line from Snoop Dogg’s song “Murder Was the Case” — “murder, murder was the case that they gave me” — when he was charged with murder in the 1990s. But the lyrics ultimately weren’t used as evidence at trial, which ended with Snoop’s acquittal. assistant head deputy for the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. But lyrics “can’t be your primary evidence,” he added. “If that’s your primary evidence, it sounds like you have a weak case to begin with.”The RICO Act was created about a half-century ago to prosecute mafia activity and other forms of racketeering. It essentially allows prosecutors to dismantle entire organizations, holding people at the top responsible for crimes committed by lower-level associates.
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