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YSL Trial Verdict: Last Defendants Acquitted of Murder Charges

YSL trial defendants Deamonte 'Yak Gotti' Kendrick and Shannon Stillwell were acquitted of murder charges at the longest trial in Georgia history

Six weeks after Grammy-winning rapper Young Thugpleaded out of his gang and racketeering conspiracy case in Atlanta, his two remaining co-defendants were acquitted of murder charges Tuesday, ending the longest-running criminal trial in Georgia state history. In her opening statement, Fulton County Chief Deputy District Attorney Adriane Love claimed YSL was a criminal street gang that “dominated” South Atlanta with drug sales, armed robberies, assaults and three murders. The trial meandered for months but then burst into global headlines with the dramatic on-camera arrest of Williams’ defense lawyer Brian Steel on a contempt charge that was later dropped and the involuntary recusal of Fulton County Chief Judge Ural Glanville over his handling of a secret meeting with a key witness.

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