Young Thug-YSL case ends in tatters with multiple plea changes

Jeffery “Young Thug” Williams changes his pleas in the YSL RICO trial.

Jeffery “Young Thug” Williams changes his pleas in the YSL RICO trial on Oct. 31, 2024 (Law&Crime).

After almost 11 months of trial, nearly 10 months of jury selection, and some seven months of pretrial wrangling, the perpetually-disastrous racketeering (RICO) prosecution against Jeffery “Young Thug” Williams — and over a dozen other co-defendants — reached a whimpering end with a series of plea changes.

The longest trial in Peach State history largely flamed out on Oct. 23, when one of the state’s witnesses revealed that one of the defendants was either still, or had been, behind bars — because he was reading directly from an exhibit the state failed to redact.

In Georgia, jurors in criminal trials are not supposed to have such information.

As it turned out, this was the last of numerous times the state had slipped up in this fashion. Prosecutors allowed jurors to hear about at least two defendants having been incarcerated. One defense attorney quickly raised an objection and called for a mistrial. Then another. Then came a deluge of such requests from other defense teams.

“Now the jury has repeatedly heard about Mr. [Quamarvious] Nichols being in jail, being in prison, and we cannot unring that bell, so we will ask for a mistrial,” defense attorney Nicole Westmoreland said at one point. “It’s happening over and over again, your honor, and we’re not going to be able to unring 100 bells.”

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