In this discussion from last week, defense attorneys and prosecutors in the Young Slime Life / Young Thug racketeering (RICO) conspiracy trial argue over the admissibility of statements Kenneth “Woody” Copeland made to Atlanta police investigators in 2015 about murder victim Donovan “Nut” Thomas ordering hits on people.
Shannon Stillwell’s lawyer Max Schardt argues the statements go to Woody’s state of mind.
03:20 Schardt says Woody stole from Nut, so his belief that Nut is “capable of ordering people’s deaths is relevant in this case.”
04:55 “There is no good-faith basis that Kenneth Copeland murdered Donovan Thomas,” Fulton County Deputy District Attorney Simone Hylton said. She said Woody’s phone records show he wasn’t near the the scene when Thomas was murdered.
06:15 “the some other dude did it defense”
Judge Ural Glanville asks didn’t Detective Dennis ask Copeland if he did it? Hylton says no, Dennis said there was a rumor that you did it.
07:50 “At the time of his murder, he was at his girlfriend’s house,” Hylton says of Woody
10:00 Hylton says the defendants can’t bring in bad character of Nut when they’re denying they had anything to do with murdering him
23:57 Video plays from Jan. 28, 2015, interview
34:30 Judge Glanville says prosecutors aren’t required to play this for the jury, but the defense can bring it up on cross-examination
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