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Young Thug’s Lawyer Grills Key Witness, Casts Him as Suspect in Murder

Young Thug's lawyer cast key prosecution witness Kenneth Copeland as a murder suspect Tuesday, and got him to admit he heard victim wanted him "hurt."

Two weeks ago, prosecutors played a June 2015 police interview for jurors in which Copeland claimed Williams met a group of allegedYSL members at a Texaco gas station to switch cars and give them his rented Infinity for the drive-by shooting. He said repeatedly during his direct examination by prosecutors that he concocted the story about Williams’ alleged connection to Thomas’ murder because he was under arrest on a gun charge during the interrogation and was trying to offer a “big fish” to make a deal so he could avoid going back to jail. At other points during the cross-examination, Steel stood over Copeland and walked him through a stack of court filings related to his indictments and convictions for crimes including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, making terroristic threats, theft, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

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