Attorneys say that the sprawling prosecution of Young Thug and his YSL cohort on murder, gang, and racketeering charges is affecting cases across metro Atlanta and beyond, creating widespread delays and disrupting other trials.
last year describing rampant malnourishment and neglect on the jail’s mental-health floor, where every single inmate was afflicted with lice, scabies, or both.
The sheriff’s office says it hasn’t needed to redeploy officers from the jail or run overtime to staff the YSL trial. But the security presence for the trial has been obvious, unusual, and robust. It has also presented problems of its own. The lengthy trial isn’t just taxing the resources of the sheriff. It’s exhausting the capacity of both public and private defenders. Attorneys representing defendants in this trial will be unavailable to their other clients, according to multiple attorneys interviewed for this story. This has set off a chain of filings across the criminal court system in metro Atlanta and elsewhere, as attorneys for YSL defendants ask to drop their representation of other clients or delay cases.
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