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The only jury trial over the senseless slaying of Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke is now set to begin June 25 in Los Angeles. A judge set the date for Corey Walker, the sole defendant charged as an adult in the 2020 murder, at a court hearing on Friday, Rolling Stone has confirmed. Three other defendants, including the 15-year-old shooter, were charged as juveniles. The eldest of the juveniles admitted to voluntary manslaughter and home invasion at a hearing last April. The youngest defendant admitted in May that he…

The ex-girlfriend of one of the defendants indicted in the 2002 death of Jam Master Jay told a Brooklyn jury on Thursday that the defendant “basically” confessed to killing the Run-DMC DJ, according to The Associated Press. The woman, Daynia McDonald, claimed that Ronald Washington brought her to the recording studio to meet Jay, whose real name is Jason Mizell, and then called her hours later to tell her Mizell was dead. She asked him how he knew, and she testified, “He said, ‘Because I was there.'” When she…

After a co-defendant was stabbed multiple times in Fulton County Jail, the high-profile racketeering and conspiracy trial against Atlanta rapper Young Thug — and several other alleged members of the street gang Young Slime Life — will be delayed until the new year. Shannon Jackson — also known as Shannon Stillwell — was stabbed multiple times on Sunday during a fight with inmate Willie Brown, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement released Monday. The sheriff’s office said that it is unclear what led to…

The YSL RICO trial has hit another roadblock. It took 10 months for the jury to be selected for the case, which features the rapper Young Thug as a prominent defendant. Now, less than two weeks in, the trial has been delayed following news from the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office that defendant Shannon Stillwell was stabbed over the weekend. On Monday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville dismissed the jury, citing a “medical issue” in connection to a trial “participant,” Fox 5 Atlanta reported.…

While SpaceX completed the first fully integrated flight test for its Starship vehicle in April, the event wasn't exactly a complete success. The company blew up the spacecraft on the launch pad due to a separation failure, and that caused debris to shoot out across hundreds of acres of land that contained sensitive habitats. It also started a 3.5-acre fire on state park land. In response, environmental and wildlife nonprofit groups filed a lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), accusing the agency of…

A Georgia judge has severed the case of Jayden Myrick, one of 14 original defendants in the YSL RICO case, following a mental health evaluation. The amount of defendants who’ll be tried together is now 10.The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports Myrick was ordered to undergo the evaluation in April after the 22-year-old requested to represent himself in the upcoming trial on the grounds that he was receiving legal advice from Donald Trump. “I’m not the regular inmate, I be with Joe Biden and Donald Trump and they be…

Peter Coker Jr., left, is issued search warrants from police at his villa on the southern resort island of Phuket, Thailand, Jan. 11, 2023.Crime Suppression Division, Royal Thai Police | APCAMDEN, N.J. — The former fugitive at the center of a securities fraud case involving a $100 million New Jersey deli was ordered held without bail Monday as a federal judge ruled he is a serious flight risk.A magistrate judge had approved Peter Coker Jr.'s release on a $1.5 million bond in late March, but he remained in an Essex County…

Peter Coker Jr., left, is issued search warrants from police at his villa on the southern resort island of Phuket, Thailand, Jan. 11, 2023.Crime Suppression Division, Royal Thai Police | APNEWARK, N.J. – A former fugitive in the securities fraud case involving a New Jersey deli company once valued at $100 million renounced his U.S. citizenship in 2019, prosecutors revealed Thursday as they asked a judge to deny him bail.Peter Coker Jr. "poses a serious risk of flight, and ... there are no conditions or combination thereof…

A lawyer representing a defendant in the YSL RICO case says her client was assaulted by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office’s Scorpion Unit this week.Speaking with WSB-TV, as seen below, Angela D’Williams said that her client—identified as Rodalius Ryan—was injured during the alleged assault, which is said to have occurred during a court transport.“My client said that he had been assaulted by the Scorpion Unit,” D’Williams said. “They alleged that he spit on somebody.”According to D’Williams, however, this was a…

Sign up to our Evening Headlines email for your daily guide to the latest newsSign up to our free US Evening Headlines emailAs a veteran actor of nearly 100 films and television shows, Alec Baldwin was no stranger to the strict safety protocols around the handling of firearms on set. While preparing to film an action scene for his low budget western film Rust in New Mexico last October, Baldwin was handed a .45 Colt replica revolver. According to affidavits from law enforcement, the 64-year-old actor was discussing a…