According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the suicide bomber stopped the hearing while Young Thug’s attorney Brian Steel asked to suppress evidence in the YSL RICO case. A video of a naked man with the message “Free Young Thug” played on a screen in the courtroom.
MPs rushed to turn off the mirror. The Zoom attack was delayed for several hours due to technical problems.
The hearing was Young Thug’s first court appearance since his arrest in May. He won an important victory when Judge Ural Glanville granted the rapper’s right to suppress evidence in the YSL RICO lawsuit.
Judge Glanville barred prosecutors from using cellphones and other evidence taken from Young Thug’s home without a search warrant in 2015. Prosecutors planned to bring the evidence in Thugger’s next trial, which will starts in January.
Young Thug went to court one day after his longtime partner Gunna accepted a plea deal in the YSL RICO case. Gunna pleaded Alford, which allowed him to remain clean. He was released from prison on Wednesday 14 December.
YSL founder Walter Murphy also reached a plea deal in a RICO case. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was released from prison on Tuesday, December 13.
