Attorneys Estimate Young Thug’s YSL Trial May Go On Until 2027

Yak Gotti’s Attorneys Estimate Young Thug’s YSL Trial May Go On Until 2027 Unless They Limit The Number Of Witnesses

A rapper co-defendant of Young Thug, has asked the jury to significantly cut down the number of witnesses that the state can present at trial in what seems like a forever running Georgia RICO case, adding that allowing another 360 more witnesses into evidence would exponentially drag things out into  2027.

Yak Gotti real name Deamonte Kendrick, was indicted alongside several other defendants in the 2015 killing of Donavan Thomas Jr. and other attempted murders in alleged continuity of YSL activities.

According to Law and Crime, defense attorneys E. Jay Abt, Douglas Weinstein, and Katie A. Hingerty asked Judge Ural Glanville to use his “broad discretion” to assert “reasonable control” over trial evidence by limiting the number of state witnesses.

 

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The attorneys warn that if the judge does not do so, he’ll be hearing this case into 2027, more than three years from now.

“The state, after originally proposing a witness list of over 700 witnesses, has a list of over 400 witnesses it intends to present at trial. To date, the State has presented approximately 40 witnesses since presentation of witnesses began at the end of November,” the motion reads.

“At the present, representative rate, it will take until approximately October 2026 to complete the presentation of State’s witnesses. Thus, the present trial will take well into at least mid-2027 to complete,” the motion added.

According to the defense, this is ‘simply untenable’ for both the defendants held behind bars during trial and for the judge. The defense added that an additional 360 witnesses “would cause unnecessary delay, would be a waste of time, and would amount to needless presentation of cumulative evidence.” The defense also believes that it can lead to “poor decision making by the jury.”