Young Thug and his lawyers reportedly filed a motion to limit the number of witnesses in the YSL RICO trial because they believe with the number of witnesses the trial will drag out into the middle of 2027, according to Law And Crime.
Defense attorneys E. Jay Abt, Douglas Weinstein, and Katie A. Hingerty on Tuesday asked the judge to use his “broad discretion” to the limit the number of state witnesses. If the judge chooses to not limit the number of witnesses attorneys warned him that he’ll hearing this case for well over three years.
“The state, after originally proposing a witness list of over 700 witnesses, has a list of over 400 witnesses it intends to present at trial. To date, the State has presented approximately 40 witnesses since presentation of witnesses began at the end of November. At the present, representative rate, it will take until approximately October 2026 to complete the presentation of State’s witnesses,” the motion said. “Thus, the present trial will take well into at least mid-2027 to complete.”
The defense referred to this as “simply untenable” both for the defendants held behind bars during trial and for the jury.
An additional 360 witnesses “would cause undue delay, would be a waste of time, and would amount to needless presentation of cumulative evidence,” the motion continued, also arguing that such an approach can only lead to “poor decision making by the jury.”
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“While the State puts on its case, witness by witness, Kendrick and the other Defendants sit in jail. Their lives on hold. The clock ticking on their lives. Second by second. Minute by minute. Hour by hour. Day by day. Month by month,” the defense said. “Meanwhile, the risk of a confused jury unable to comprehend a years-long trial only grows.”