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The Young Thug Trial Just Went Off the Rails: Witness Arrested for Refusing to Testify

The trial of Jeffery Williams – Young Thug – veered off the highway, after a witness at the center of the case was arrested after refusing to testify.

The interminable trial of Jeffery Williams — Young Thug — in Atlanta has again veered off the highway, after a high-profile witness at the center of the case was arrested on the stand after refusing to testify. Kenneth “Lil’ Woody” Copeland, a YSL associate whose leaked interrogation tape last year left him labeled as a snitch, has long been anticipated as a witness for the state, but his appearance in court Friday came with only a day’s public notice. That robbery turned a simmering dispute between Williams’ YSL crew and YFN into a shooting war that started with the drive-by murder of Donovan “Nut” Thomas a few days later, witnesses said.

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