A decide ordered Georgia to return Young Thug’s vehicles and $149K after YSL RICO trial ends with acquittals, marking a defeat for Fani Willis.

A Georgia decide has ordered state authorities to return Young Thug’s luxurious vehicles and greater than $149,000 in money that investigators seized through the YSL RICO investigation that resulted in a serious defeat for prosecutor Fani Willis.

Judge Paige Reese Whitaker dominated Wednesday that the state should return most objects seized from the Atlanta rapper, together with a 2022 Chevrolet Corvette, a 2022 Porsche 911, three Mercedes-Benzes, a 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee, a 2018 Lamborghini, a Can-Am Spyder, jewellery, and $149,000 in money by Friday at 5 p.m.

The ruling got here after Young Thug’s lawyer, Brian Steele, argued that Georgia failed to carry a civil forfeiture listening to inside the required 60-day time restrict following the rapper’s October 2024 plea deal, which ended the state’s longest-running prison trial.

Judge Whitaker added that the state supplied no authorized authority to retain custody of the property after the forfeiture criticism was dismissed.

Young Thug was launched from jail on October 31, 2024, after pleading responsible to at least one gang cost, three drug fees, and two gun fees whereas coming into no-contest pleas to racketeering conspiracy and one other gang cost.

The rapper obtained a 40-year sentence but was immediately released on time served after spending over two years in jail awaiting trial, with 15 years of probation and strict conditions including staying away from metro Atlanta except for specific family events.

The YSL case started in May 2022 when Willis introduced indictments towards Young Thug and 27 others, alleging they operated a violent road gang known as Young Slime Life related to the Bloods.

Prosecutors claimed the gang was answerable for a number of killings and that Young Thug’s document label, Young Stoner Life, was tied to prison actions.

The trial became a disaster for Willis’s office, plagued by misconduct allegations, judicial recusals and prosecutorial missteps that led to the original judge stepping down after being accused of improper conduct.

Several co-defendants took plea offers earlier than Young Thug’s shock responsible plea, together with rapper Gunna, who accepted an Alford plea in December 2022 that allowed him to keep up innocence whereas acknowledging prosecutors had enough proof for conviction.

The case concluded in December 2024 with the ultimate two defendants, Deamonte Kendrick (Yak Gotti) and Shannon Stillwell, being acquitted of practically all fees, together with homicide, dealing Willis a crushing blow after Georgia’s longest prison trial ended with out securing any homicide convictions.

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