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Young Thug appears in court

Jeffery Williams, aka Young Thug, appears in court on March 4, 2024 (Law&Crime Network)

Just one day after the Georgia Supreme Court overturned a murder conviction because jurors were shown a 33-second rap music video that was more prejudicial than probative, Young Thug’s lawyer called the RICO trial judge’s attention to the decision as a guidepost for ruling on a defense motion to strike rap music videos and lyrics from evidence.

Brian Steel, the attorney for the rapper born Jeffery Williams, on Wednesday supplied a few pages of context and attached the entire decision in Baker v. State to inform Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville on the use of “rap videos, musical lyrics and the like” during the trial.

“This Honorable Court conditionally admitted evidence of rap videos, musical lyrics and the like in the trial of this case if the prosecution lay a proper foundation for same,” the defense began, before pointing to Baker v. State and its “wonderful analysis” of O.C.G.A. § 24-4-403, the section dealing with the exclusion of relevant evidence that is more prejudicial than probative. “Mr. Williams argued that the admission of these items without foundation that these specific lyrics, videos, words and other artistic expression violates Constitutional and Statutory provisions.”

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