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    Young Thug Accepts RICO Case Plea Deal, Sentence Reduced to Probation

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    The Young Thug trial is over and the Atlanta rap legend is returning home. Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, accepted a plea deal in his RICO case, allowing him to be released on probation for the next 15 years, the court said. New York Times reports.

    A thug was arrested since May 2022 and on trial since November 2023 – the longest trial in Georgia history. He has been accused of gun, drug and gang crimes, allegedly linked to his label YSL. He accepted a blind guilty plea, meaning the judge decides his sentence, in addition to pleading no contest to two charges. The prosecution recommended 45 years in prison, with 25 served, followed by 20 years of probation. The defense recommended 45 years in prison, with five served, commuted based on time already served in custody. Judge Paige Reese Whitaker decided on a sentence of 40 years, with five served, commuted to time served with 15 years of probation. Brian Steel, Thug’s lawyer, said he agreed to the deal because the lengthy legal process was “holding this man hostage.”

    If Thug violates the terms of his probation, he faces a possible sentence of 20 years in prison. It is also barred from the Atlanta metro area for the next 10 years, with a few exceptions. He must complete 100 hours of community service, give anti-gang presentations to children four times a year, pass random drug tests and refrain from associating with known gang members outside of his brother, Quintavis Grier (the rapper known as Unfoonk) and Gunna (Sergio Kitchens), who is signed to YSL and is a longtime collaborator of Young Thug. Thug specifically requested the right to maintain contact with Gunna, who was widely accused of denunciation when he reached his own plea deal last year. Thug today rejected an earlier plea deal that would have resulted in a more lenient sentence but would have required him to testify that he was the leader of a gang and that his music encouraged others to commit violence.

    Thug provided this statement to the court before sentencing:

    I hope you will allow me to go home today and trust me to do the right thing and never see you again. I promise you, I will never find myself in this kind of situation again. I go away, I learned from my mistakes, you know, I came from nothing and I did something. I didn’t take full advantage of it. I’m sorry.

    The trial was long and chaotic, beginning with a postponement due to the stab of co-defendant Shannon Stillwell. (Stillwell, known as SB or Shannon Jackson, and Deamonte Kendrick, known as Yak Gotti, will remain on trial.) One of Thug’s lawyers, Nicole Fegan, was also arrested on gang-related charges. One witness – Kenneth Copeland, aka Lil Woody – was arrested at the bar for refusing to testify. The steel was held in contempt for objecting to an illegal private conversation between Judge Ural Glanville and the prosecution, which led to Glanville’s conviction deletion of the case. His replacement, Judge Shukura L. Ingram, recused herself because she is related to a Fulton County Courthouse deputy who was arrested for allegedly trying to pass contraband to another YSL defendant. In comments to the press, Steel praised Whitaker for her handling of the trial: “She’s not our first judge, but this is the first time we’ve gotten justice.” »

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