Lawyers of Gunna are again calling for the release of the rapper, urging the judge who has continuously denied him bond release after repeated attempts already.
Gunna, along with Young Thug and other members of the Young Slime Life Records was served with a sweeping indictment last May 2022, involving them of attempting to violate Atlanta's RICO act and a flurry of other felony charges.
The judge presiding over the case has denied Gunna's bond release because of his possible chances of witness tampering, among any other doubts.
Gunna's lawyers have continued to call out this bond release ruling. (via Billboard)
In a new filing, the rapper's legal team said that the government has failed to back up these allegations of witness tampering with facts. Prosecutors have allegedly "failed to verify a single instance in which one single person has actually made an accusation that Kitchens has threatened anybody."
Prosecutors argued at the time that since Gunna holds a "commanding position" from the YSL gang, he might use his resources, when freed temporarily, to direct the gang's remaining troops to intimidate witnesses.
"Kitchens has been languishing in jail nearly five months. Franz Kafka would be shocked to learn that 'imprison him now; present the evidence sometime in the future' appears to be the State's reality in Fulton County," the filing says.
Gunna's team is arguing that the prosecution, until now, has not provided to the court any evidence from the thousands of pages of discovery that his retention in jail is warranted. They have also pointed out that the prosecution's alleged plan to "develop evidence to support its motion" to detain Gunna has not succeeded.
Gunna, along with Young Thug and the other members of the gang remains in jail until their scheduled January 2023 trial.
Both rappers were arrested using their song lyrics' violent expressions as the sole evidence to support their grand-jury indictment.
Per Rolling Stone, Fulton Country District Attorney Fanni Willis reiterated that she will be using the rap lyrics as evidence of a crime in court despite pushback about its legality.
States like California and New York have pushed forward laws to advance the prevention of using music lyrics as evidence in court. A federal act is also being launched in the House to implement such law in the entire United States.
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