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Young Thug’s Co-Defendant Takes Plea Deal, Has Murder Count Dismissed

Young Thug co-defendant takes surprise plea deal in YSL trial but "categorically" denies any violence.

One of the co-defendants charged under the YSL gang and racketeering conspiracy indictment took a surprise plea deal Tuesday in a move that could alter the course of Young Thug ’s problem-plagued trial. Prosecutors started meeting with the defense teams one on one last week as Judge Whitaker considered a pending mistrial motion brought by Nichols’ lawyers. In the Wednesday incident, rapper Wunnie “SlimeLife Shawty” Lee, a former defendant in the case who took a prior plea deal, read aloud to the jury a portion of an Instagram caption that was supposed to be redacted.

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