More than 18 months after Atlanta prosecutors charged Young Thug and 26 other men with conspiracy to violate Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and more in a sweeping indictment, the jury trial of Thug and his five remaining co-defendants began Monday morning.
Much like its preliminary process, the trial’s opening statements got off to a rocky start, with multiple interruptions along the way.
Fulton County Chief Deputy District Attorney Adriane Love began her remarks with a quote from “The Law of the Jungle,” a poem from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, introducing a metaphor for the YSL crew as a “pack” and Young Thug, its alleged leader, as a “wolf.” But before she could cap off the comparison with the poem’s concluding stanza, objections from the defense began rolling in.
Read Next: Young Thug and YSL’s RICO trial begins Chief among them was a motion for mistrial by Young Thug’s attorney Brian Steel, based on the claim that Love had shown jurors evidence that presiding judge Ural Glanville had explicitly excluded from the case, as well as information that had not been properly presented to the defense before the hearing.
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