Younger Thug’s YSL RICO trial continues to make headlines. Thugger’s former affiliate Lil Woody (actual identify Kenneth Copeland) has been arrested for contempt, regardless of beforehand being granted immunity, following a heated court docket listening to.
On Friday (June 7), Woody was taken into custody after he invoked his Fifth Modification proper and refused to testify towards Younger Thug. Although a portion of his testimony from his 2021 felony arrest that was given to authorities was leaked by the media, Copeland refused to cooperate with the prosecution as soon as he took the stand, leading to a tense alternate.
“I’m grown. I’m an grownup,” Copeland replied when requested to substantiate how outdated he was. “I take the fifth.” Fulton County Superior Courtroom Chief Choose Ural Glanville then ordered Copeland to be held in willful contempt till June 10, for the reason that prosecution had already granted immunity.
“I simply wish to just be sure you perceive,” Glanville stated. “If you happen to don’t testify, then I because the choose on this case have a number of treatments. A kind of is that I can maintain you in contempt and jail you as a result of the way in which that you just get out of that contempt is to simply testify.”
Copeland was initially arrested in Fulton County in October 2021 after being discovered with a loaded gun throughout a site visitors cease. It was on the time Copeland reportedly divulged incriminating particulars about crimes dedicated by YSL and dedicated to acquiring a confession from Younger Thug.
Brad Metal, Younger Thug’s lawyer, tried to maneuver for a mistrial on the grounds that it was recognized that the witness would plead the Fifth, nonetheless Glanville struck the movement down.
In line with a fan web page on Twitter (X), Copeland shared a number of posts on social media following the incident, which additionally reportedly confirmed his plan to plead the fifth as soon as he took the stand.
“I’m good cease calling me I ain’t crying in any respect f## em,” Copeland wrote in an Instagram Story publish. “This my final jail time I like y’all and I’ve to take this journey my head excessive no one didn’t pressure me to and imma be okay God didn’t deliver me this far for nothing it’s what it’s I’ll be okay.”
Younger Thug has been in jail since he was arrested in Could 2022 after being named amongst greater than two dozen defendants indicted within the RICO case. YSL recording artist Gunna pleaded responsible in December 2022 to a single cost of racketeering.
Try the video of the listening to, which incorporates the incident with Copeland, beneath.