Young Thug and Gunna appeared for a pre-trial hearing in Court.
Young Thug and Gunna have been in prison for the past six months after getting arrested for Racketeering Charges As Part Of A 56-Count RICO Charge in May. The duo appeared through video for a pre-trial hearing on Thursday in Court at Fulton Country, Georgia.
The pictures from the pre-trial surface online, where both of them were wearing jumpsuits and sporting long hair.
New pictures of Young Thug & Gunna in court today 🙏 pic.twitter.com/X45OWPLSQ7
— Kurrco (@Kurrco) November 17, 2022
According to 11Alive, the proceedings for the pre-trial began with Judge Glanville denying a motion by the Fulton DA’s Office to delay the trial until March. As announced previously, the trial for the YSL duo will begin on January 9, 2023.
Young Thug’s lawyers again made a new bond request, after being denied twice previously by the Judge. He stated that he has been “languishing in the County Jail since the date of his arrest”.
Judge Ural Glanville set the January sentencing hearing at the court after turning down the prosecution’s request to postpone things until March, according to .“The biggest driver that I see is that I’ve no-bonded most all the people in this trial, and they deserve to have a right to go to trial,” the judge stated.
In December, Gunna was released from prison after he pleaded guilty to the racketeering Rico charges, for which he was arrested in May with Young Thug and other YSL members. The rapper and his legal team entered an Alford plea, where he pleaded guilty to one charge, for which he was sentenced to five years. The four years of the sentence were ‘suspended’ and the rapper will serve the rest with 500 hours of community service.
“While I have agreed to always be truthful, I want to make it perfectly clear that I have NOT made any statements, have NOT been interviewed, have NOT cooperated, have NOT agreed to testify or be a witness for or against any party in the case and have absolutely NO intention of being involved in the trial process in any way,” he said in a statement. “My focus of YSL was entertainment — rap artists who wrote and performed music that exaggerated and ‘glorified’ urban life in the Black community.”
