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Mistrial Potentially Looming in Young Thug’s Atlanta Gang Trial, Sparking Delays and Plea Deal Talks

A Young Thug mistrial is possible as the judge weighs ending the Atlanta RICO trial after a witness revealed sensitive information to the jury.

A Georgia judge is weighing whether to declare a mistrial in Young Thug ’s long-running Atlanta gang trial, a move that would require prosecutors to either start from scratch or drop a case that has already lasted more than two years. The Wednesday incident that sparked the calls for a mistrial took place as prosecutors were questioning a witness named Wunnie Lee (aka Slimelife Shawty), a former defendant in the YSL case who signed a plea agreement in exchange for testifying. The misstep quickly drew another sharp critique from Judge Whitaker, who attempted to reach a solution that would allow the case to move forward: “What I’m trying to do is fix your sloppiness so that everybody won’t have wasted 10 to 12 months of their lives in this trial.”

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