Gunna

Gunna is set to be released from prison after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the RICO Act.

“I have chosen to end my own RICO case with an Alford plea and end my personal ordeal by publicly acknowledging my association with YSL. “My focus of YSL was entertainment – rap artists who wrote and performed music that exaggerated and “glorified” urban life in the Black community. The case centred around the YSL (Young Slime Life and Young Stoner Life) label founded by the pair in 2016, which authorities claimed was a “criminal street gang”.

Gunna has been let out of prison after entering a negotiated guilty plea due to his part in a racketeering conspiracy charge.

Some of the defendants were charged with violent crimes such as murder and attempted armed robbery and Young Thug remains in jail. He contested by saying that he "have NOT been interviewed, have NOT cooperated, have NOT agreed to testify or be a witness for or against any party in the case and have absolutely NO intention of being involved in the trial process in any way." Rapper Gunna has been released from jail this week after pleading guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge as part of a RICO case against the Young Slime Life (YSL) gang.

Rapper Gunna was released from prison on Wednesday after submitting a plea to one count of conspiring to break Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Atlanta's WSB-TV Channel 2 stated that the 29-year-old rapper received a ...

[Steve Sadow](/topic/steve-sadow), his sentence will be over when he completes his community service. Following a search of his home, he was charged with seven additional crimes involving firearms and illegal drugs. The jury selection process for Thug's case is expected to begin in early 2023.

Gunna was released from jail yesterday after he agreed a plea bargain deal with prosecutors in the criminal case against him, fellow rapper Young Thug and ...

[YSL Records](https://completemusicupdate.com/tag/ysl-records/) [Young Thug](https://completemusicupdate.com/tag/young-thug/) Actually, under the deal he will have to testify, if called, in any trials involving other members of YSL. The deal done between prosecutors and Gunna is a special kind of plea bargain in which the accused maintains their innocence but concedes that a guilty verdict in court is highly likely. The kind of plea deal agreed to by Kitchens is often referred to as an Alford plea. rap artists who wrote and performed music that exaggerated and ‘glorified’ urban life in the black community”.

American rapper, Sergio Giavanni Kitchens, known professionally as Gunna, has been released from jail on Wednesday, after entering a negotiated guilty plea ...

“An Alford plea in my case is the entry of a guilty plea to the one charge against me, which is in my best interest, while at the same time maintaining my innocence toward the same charge.” He must stay away from guns and from his co-defendants unless the communication goes through attorneys or his record label. “I have chosen to end my RICO case with an Alford plea and end my personal ordeal by publicly acknowledging my association with YSL.

Following the news that Gunna would be released from jail, video of the moment the rapper entered his plea deal in the court has been released.

The Georgia native was behind bars since May, when he and other YSL associates were named in a sweeping RICO indictment. YSL as a gang must end, is that your statement or acknowledgement?” Gunna was asked in court. In the video, as seen above, Gunna acknowledged that he became associated with Young Stoner Life Records in 2016, and that YSL is a record label and a gang.

Wack 100 is now accusing Gunna of snitching on Young Thug and the YSL crew following his release from prison after taking a plea deal.

The case is set to go to trial on January 9. I’m gone,” before abruptly leaving the Clubhouse session. “My focus of YSL was entertainment — rap artists who wrote and performed music that exaggerated and ‘glorified’ urban life in the Black community,” he added. In October, the veteran music manager “He told,” the manager said. Gunna (real name Sergio Kitchens) was released from police custody after seven months behind bars on Wednesday after agreeing to a plea deal that credited him with time served.

Earlier this week, Gunna was released from custody after entering an Alford plea in the widely criticized case. Thug, however, remains behind bars.

[accusations](https://www.complex.com/music/young-thug-gunna-rico-charges-explained/thug-accused) that have been leveled against Thug are conspiracy to violate the RICO Act and participation in criminal street gang activity. “I have chosen to end my own RICO case with an Alford plea and end my personal ordeal by publicly acknowledging my association with YSL,” Gunna said. In a statement shared with Complex via counsel, Gunna noted that he still maintained his innocence in the case. In the meantime, Complex has reached out to Steel’s office for further comment. Among the Presumably, additional information regarding the hearing will be released shortly.

Gunna was released from jail yesterday after entering a plea deal on a racketeering conspiracy charge.

In June, a judge denied bond and an elaborate house arrest plan. Some of the defendants were charged with violent crimes such as murder and attempted armed robbery. According to attorney Steve Saddow, the rapper’s sentence will be completed after finishing his community service.

Atlanta's Fulton County grand jury also charged some individuals with violent crimes that include attempted armed robbery and murder. Both Young Thug and Gunna ...

[circulated](https://www.vulture.com/2022/06/young-thug-jail-hot-97-summer-jam.html#:~:text=Being%20behind%20bars%20hasn't,Petition%20to%20Protect%20Black%20Art.) the Petition to Protect Black Art, asking both federal and state legislators to adopt bills that limit the admissibility of rap lyrics as evidence in a court of law. “I have some legal advice: Don’t confess to crimes on rap lyrics if you don’t want them used, or at least get out of my county.” While Willis has vowed to continue to use lyrics as evidence, legislators on both the [state](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/california-bill-banning-rap-lyrics-as-evidence-heads-to-governor-1234579851/) and [federal](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/arts/music/california-rap-lyrics-bill-young-thug.html) levels have introduced bills to limit their use. If there’s violence, it’s interpersonal — not organized.” He was troubled by the use of the RICO law, which, in his words, is a “thing created for the Mafia now being used to indict young Black males who are flirting with the culture and the music, but who are not involved with any criminal enterprise.” He continued, “Once they hit you with this RICO thing, you’re finished. [Boosie](https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lil-boosies-rap-lyrics-can-be-used-in-murder-trial-490631/), [Bobby Shmurda](https://www.vulture.com/2015/05/bobby-shmurda-court-case.html), [Drakeo the Ruler](https://www.vulture.com/article/drakeo-the-ruler-obituary.html), and [6ix9ine](https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/tekashi-69-snitching-explained-what-happens-next.html)’s lyrics have all been deployed in court as evidence against them. “While I have agreed to always be truthful, I want to make it perfectly clear that I have NOT made any statements, have NOT been interviewed, have NOT cooperated, have NOT agreed to testify or be a witness for or against any party in the case and have absolutely NO intention of being involved in the trial process in any way,” Gunna told WSB and The distributor behind Young Stoner Life Records has lent their support to Gunna and Thug in a myriad of ways. As a term of the deal, the rapper must take the stand if summoned to court and called to testify, though he has the option of pleading the Fifth. District Attorney Wills previously filed a motion on August 15 asking the judge to order defense attorneys to avoid sharing discovery materials, including “the names of all lay witnesses (and) cooperating YSL associates that will be called to testify in this case,” with anyone outside their legal teams. If you come to Fulton County, Georgia, you commit crimes, and certainly if those crimes are in furtherance of a street gang, then you are going to become a target and a focus of this district attorney’s office, and we are going to prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law,” Willis said in a May 10 The rapper pleaded guilty to a charge of racketeering conspiracy in what is known as an Alford plea — a deal that allows him to plead guilty if it’s in his interest while maintaining his innocence. The document asks both federal and state legislators to adopt bills that limit the use of rap lyrics as evidence in a court of law. Not only has the case arrived under the specter of a [60 percent rise in violent crime in Atlanta](https://www.ajc.com/news/after-historically-deadly-2020-atlanta-homicides-are-up-nearly-60-in-2021/N63RJ5OKQZCZVOCNH2D6376S3E/), which Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis has promised to fight, but it has reverberated throughout the hip-hop community, where many have argued that this trial is but the latest instance of the criminal-justice system [unfairly tying rappers to violent crime through their art](https://www.vulture.com/2022/01/jay-z-urges-ny-courts-to-stop-using-rap-lyrics-as-evidence.html).

Some of Gunna's fellow rappers celebrated his release, while others accused the YSL artist of “snitching” on his co-defendants.

Boosie Badazz pointed to Gunna’s sentencing hearing in which he admitted that the YSL imprint was both a record label and a gang. Thug is among the dozens of YSL associates who were listed in the sweeping RICO indictment. “Gunna did not snitch to get out of jail,” Sadow wrote. “He has said nothing and is not cooperating. As part of the plea agreement, Gunna received a time-served, suspended sentence and was quickly released from Fulton County Jail. [pleaded guilty to a single count](https://www.complex.com/music/gunna-plea-deal-released-from-jail-ysl-case) in the YSL RICO case.

An Alford plea allows a defendant to maintain their innocence, but acknowledge that pleading guilty is in their best interest, according to the U.S. Department ...

On the advice of his attorney, Alford pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of second degree murder. While entering his plea, Alford maintained that he was innocent, but pleading guilty due to the threat of the death penalty, according to the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University. The four-year remaining balance on his sentence has been suspended and will be subject to special conditions including 500 hours of community service. Gunna was sentenced to five years with one served in prison. [Atlanta rapper Gunna released after pleading guilty to RICO charge](https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/rapper-gunna-enters-plea-deal-racketeering-conspiracy-charges-sentence-commuted/TCFGAJ45UZHDVKWHL2BFFEPBJE/) [Here are the people facing charges in the indictment that includes rapper Young Thug](https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/here-are-people-facing-charges-indictment-that-includes-rapper-young-thug/BWRJUENMRFFIBOEHY4GRMV4EHQ/) [‘I’m gonna fight for him to the end:’ Young Thug’s father says he’s been wrongly accused](https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/im-gonna-fight-him-end-young-thugs-father-says-hes-been-wrongly-accused/2KIK7YVXSVDIDBEXBWJNZ7PQXA/) [Gunna was released from the Fulton County Jail](https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/rapper-gunna-enters-plea-deal-racketeering-conspiracy-charges-sentence-commuted/TCFGAJ45UZHDVKWHL2BFFEPBJE/) on Wednesday after pleading guilty to his part of a sweeping gang indictment that also includes rapper Young Thug.

Young Thug's sister has come to Gunna's defense and is asking for the public to ease up when referring to the YSL rapper as a snitch.

He has said nothing and is not cooperating,” he wrote. Gunna was sentenced to five years with one year served in prison. “Gunna did not snitch to get out of jail. “No, I haven’t posted him because I was just told that nobody really supposed to have communications with each other right now,” she said. “Can y’all please stop saying then people write it and this and that? [Young Thug](https://hiphopdx.com/artist/young-thug)‘s sister has come to [Gunna](https://hiphopdx.com/artist/gunna)‘s defense and is asking for the public to ease up when referring to him as a snitch.

Rapper Gunna pleaded guilty in the criminal case against Young Thug and other alleged members of an Atlanta gang.

“My focus of YSL was entertainment – rap artists who wrote and performed music that exaggerated and ‘glorified’ urban life in the Black community.” “I love and cherish my association with YSL music, and always will,” he wrote. California recently banned the tactic in that state, but Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has strongly defended using it against Young Thug and Gunna. Such laws make it easier for prosecutors to sweep up many members of an alleged criminal conspiracy (in this case, 28 total) based on many smaller acts that aren’t directly related. “YSL as a gang must end.” Fulton County jail records confirm Gunna was released later on Wednesday. He also acknowledged during the hearing that YSL was both “a music label and a gang,” and that he had “personal knowledge that members or associates of YSL have committed crimes and in furtherance of the gang.” In Wednesday’s statement, Gunna said he was “acknowledging my association with YSL,” but that he had never seen the group as a criminal enterprise. [Young Thug](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/young-thug-rico-gang-charges-1235143784/) (Jeffery Williams) and Gunna were indicted in May, along with dozens of others, on accusations that their group YSL was not really a record label called “Young Stoner Life,” but a violent Atlanta street gang called “Young Slime Life.” The charges include allegations of murder, carjacking, armed robbery, drug dealing and illegal firearm possession over the past decade. “I recognized, acknowledge and deeply regret that my talent and music indirectly furthered YSL the gang to the detriment of my community,” the rapper wrote in a statement read aloud by prosecutors. “While I have agreed to always be truthful, I want to make it perfectly clear that I have NOT made any statements, have NOT been interviewed, have NOT cooperated, have NOT agreed to testify or be a witness for or against any party in the case and have absolutely NO intention of being involved in the trial process in any way,” the rapper wrote. 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Young Thug's sister Dolly White has taken to social media to defend Gunna's release from jail after the rapper entered a plea deal on Wednesday.

He has said nothing and is not cooperating.” “So I don’t want to mess up his shit, so why would I just and post it?” Can y’all please stop? So can y’all please stop that? [have called](https://www.complex.com/music/boosie-badazz-kid-cudi-more-react-to-gunna-jail-release) Gunna a snitch. “Can y’all please stop saying that people ratted, and people this-and-that?” White said.

Angela Yee is hesitant to label Gunna a snitch after his plea deal in the YSL RICO case.

with one of those years commuted for time served and the remaining 4 suspended, pending special conditions and community service. [Young Thug](https://www.tmz.com/people/young-thug/) has any problem with Gunna's plea deal -- she believes Thug didn't want to see Gunna locked up with him in the first place. [Tekashi 6ix9ine](https://www.tmz.com/people/tekashi69/) ... [walked free](https://www.tmz.com/2022/12/14/gunna-prison-release-ysl-plea-deal-guilty-young-thug-gangs-music/) Wednesday from the Fulton County Jail in Georgia, ending his 7 months of incarceration. [Angela Yee](https://www.tmz.com/people/angela-yee/) says folks need to ease up on labeling [Gunna](https://www.tmz.com/people/gunna/) a snitch -- just because he copped a plea deal in the YSL RICO case, she doesn't believe the rapper would ever sing to the feds. The Grammy-nominated rapper pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge as part of a pre-negotiated plea known as an Alford plea and was sentenced to 5 years behind bars ...

Source with knowledge of the case explains that the rapper's plea statement can't be used against any other YSL defendants without his testimony.

“It’s not a co-conspirator statement, it’s a statement against his own interest only related to his case,” says Massachusetts-based attorney Brad Bailey. If you look at what was said in court, that stops the defense from calling him, but also indicates that he’s never going to testify for the state.” The source contends that the aim of the plea is “to neutralize him and keep him out of the game.“ “[His statement] cannot be used to establish the existence of a gang or a criminal enterprise.” Lawyer Bruce Rivers, known for his Criminal Lawyer Reacts YouTube channel, notes that if the prosecution tried to introduce Gunna’s plea statement without his testimony, the decision “would be a violation of Crawford v Washington,” which regulates the use of out-of-court statements. Gunna’s lawyers filed multiple bail motions after his arrest, contending that the state’s August re-indictment removed him from implication in violent crimes. Otherwise, the judge will say, ‘you haven’t satisfied the elements of the crime, prosecutor.” His statement sparked outrage from onlookers who speculated that Gunna was cooperating against YSL defendants or that those statements would negatively impact other defendants in the YSL indictment, including [Thug, real name Jeffery Williams.](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/young-thug-punk-ysl-1202951/) His plea statement in court cannot be used against any other defendant.” Other legal professionals who spoke with Rolling Stone echoed this point. “That’s why the plea agreement is written exactly the way it is because the whole idea was: the state wasn’t going to call him, and they didn’t want the defense to call him either. Gunna’s release punctuates a rocky year for the rapper, which started with his album DS4EVER topping the Billboard 200, and ended with him evading a potentially lengthy prison stint. As part of his Alford plea, Kitchens’ statements apply solely to his case and cannot be used in subsequent cases. On Wednesday, court footage of Gunna’s Alford Plea hearing was leaked on Twitter. On Wednesday, Kitchens’ lawyer Steven Sadow posted to Instagram that “Gunna did not snitch to get out of jail.

6ix9ine has blasted Gunna for supposedly incriminating Young Thug and other YSL members by taking a plea deal in the RICO case against the Atlanta ...

Only you and Jeffery was in the car. It’s only you and Jeffery in the car. “Get me McDonald’s and when you come back, I might remember something. “I stand on what ever I do or did. That’s why I’m still walking on this earth AND NOTHING EVER HAPPENS TO ME. He was subsequently released from jail, where he’s been incarcerated since his arrest in May.

Plus, conservationist Beth Pratt joins to discuss P-22.

Plus, with the health of the world’s most famous mountain lion in question, conservationist Beth Pratt joins to discuss P-22 (1:15:04). and Rachel Lindsay [Van and Rachel discuss](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6qoCrazttHPOcMmIM53aEJ?si=hsPAAO3OSWi-iz1xG3Qoew) the latest in the Tory Lanez trial (16:14), before welcoming rapper and podcaster Glasses Malone to react to Gunna’s plea deal in the RICO case (1:00:16).

Just days after his guilty plea and release from jail, Atlanta rapper Gunna is planning to give out $100000 to local families ahead of Christmas.