After three years, 28 defendants and countless days in court, the long-running “Young Slime Life” gang and racketeering case will wrap up without a single murder conviction.
For the second time in as many weeks, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office agreed to drop a murder charge against an alleged YSL member in exchange for their guilty plea in the high-profile case.
Several Atlanta attorneys said Tuesday that was par for the course, and it was clear Willis’ office tried to dispose of the remaining defendants as quickly as possible after last year’s trial fell apart.
“I’m certainly not surprised,” said Keith Adams, who represented Atlanta rapper Young Thug, the Grammy-winning superstar at the center of the state’s case.
“It was obvious they did not have the evidence to p