![]() ![]() “So they’re gonna have to go through hundreds and hundreds of jurors before they find 12 that really have nothing better to do than sit around for months.” “Normally, you can’t get out of jury duty, but if it’s a long-cause trial like this that’s going to last months, the judge has to let you out if you say you can’t serve that long,” Rahmani said. Attorney, pointed to the difficulties in selecting a jury for this trial. Like Fiset, Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers and a former assistant U.S. The alleged passing of drugs, “that’s not normal.” These types of antics delay cases because officials “have to deal with these behaviors in court.” “The part that’s abnormal is the amount of defendants and the various shenanigans that are going on in court,” added Fiset. “So you have to find people that can give up a year of their life and sit on that jury - and that’s really hard to do.” ![]() They’re estimating it’s going to take a year,” Rachel Fiset, a criminal defense attorney and managing partner of Los Angeles–based Zweiback, Fiset & Zalduendo LLP, told Vulture. ![]() “There’s a few reasons, kind of normal issues, that make things weird: One is that he’s a celebrity and two is that it’s a RICO trial. But the courtroom theatrics involving drugs and leaks are. While some observers have wondered why is this is all taking so long - and whether the slowness of the proceedings, as well as the surprising antics surrounding the case, are normal - veteran attorneys who spoke with Vulture say it’s not surprising that a lengthy racketeering trial, with more than one dozen defendants, would feature a long jury selection - especially one with a famous person in the mix. The moment was captured on video and further delayed the proceedings. (Williams’s lawyer denied the allegations, saying his client “barely” knew Adams, didn’t know he was going to be given a pill, and handed the pill to the authorities immediately.) Adding to all the confusion: The prosecution is requesting two of Williams’s co-defendants be tried separately because their defense lawyers are pregnant, and earlier this week, an interrogation video depicting a YSL associate speaking with police leaked online, prompting one attorney to request a mistrial. Then there was the alleged courtroom drug deal, with prosecutors claiming Kahlieff Adams, one of Williams’s co-defendants, passed the rapper a Percocet while he was seated alongside his lawyer in court. The judge in this case, Ural Glanville, punished one potential juror with a 30-page homework assignment when she didn’t show for jury duty, and held another in contempt after they sent a message to a reporter from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution asking for information about the slow-moving selection process. Meanwhile, the trial has been rife with drama. As of February 22, “not a single person has been seated” on the jury. The rapper, whose legal name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, is among several dozen facing state charges in relation to allegedly founding a street gang called Young Slime Life. Officials have summoned more than 600 potential jurors for the trial, which could span from at least six to nine months when proceedings start in earnest. ![]() When Young Thug’s Georgia racketeering trial began with jury selection on January 4, it was already poised to be a lengthy process. ![]()
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