YNW Melly has a pretty tough case.
The rapper’s double murder trial YNW Melly began Monday morning (June 12) after a judge on Friday changed the threshold to a death sentence if convicted. Broward District Judge John Murphy granted prosecutors’ motion to follow a new law that would allow juries to recommend a death sentence by an 84 vote instead of a unanimous vote. The push to lower the maximum limit for Florida’s death penalty was inspired by the convicted Parkland high school gunman, who was denied the death penalty by a divided jury.
Melly, best known for the hit song “Murder on My Mind,” was arrested on February 13, 2019 for firstdegree murder. He has since been held in Broward’s main prison, despite attempts to have him released from prison at the height of the pandemic. from COVID19. The 24yearold’s death is one of the first to be treated after the move. The 84 vote for recommending a death sentence is the lowest in the United States. Murphy wrote in the order that the decision was “not fundamentally unfair.” [Melly]… nor would it violate your right to due process.”
Prosecutors are trying to prove the rapper’s guilt through his cell phone. Without having concrete evidence that the rapper shot the two friends or even found the murder weapon, the prosecution is trying to prove this to the judge Melly is held responsible by tracking your mobile device and the content on it. “The state intends to provide evidence that the phone was at the crime scene and there were no other phones there. To do this, the state must convince each and every one of you that this is the defendant’s phone number. You’ll see him (YNW Melly) identify himself in the messages and in the content of the messages,” the attorney says in the video at the end of the article, proving that the cellphone belonged to the rapper.
Prosecutors also announce that they found an alleged confession to the crime in YNW Melly’s cell phone. In a conversation with a man, when asked about the shooting that led to the deaths of the two friends, Melly would have replied: “I did that” and added a silence emoji.
In the early hours of October 26, 2018, codefendant and confidant Cortlen Henry entered the emergency room at Miramar Memorial Hospital, according to court records. He told medical staff that two men had been shot dead in his 2018 Jeep Compass. Anthony Williams21, in the passenger seat with gunshot wounds to the head and torso and Christopher Thomas Jr., 19, in the right rear passenger seat with gunshot wounds to the back and head. They were already dead.
Henry According to court records, her whereabouts were reported that night. He told police the trio had exited New Era Recording Studio in Fort Lauderdale when a car pulled up next to them on Miramar Parkway and opened fire. Williams It is Thomasboth aspiring rappers, were known as YNW Sakchaser It is YNW Juvy. amidst the gunfight, Henry He lowered his body, he told police, to protect himself. When he heard that his friends had been hit by the hail of bullets, he ran to the nearest hospital. The police searched the area where Henry said the shooting occurred but found no evidence to match Henry’s account, according to court records.
Court filings show investigators found evidence on a remote stretch of Pembroke Road, including another .40 caliber grenade and glass, matching the jeep. Analysis of the projectile showed, according to court documents, that the hail of bullets probably did not hit the moving SUV. Autopsies indicate the footage was from the left rear passenger side, where Melly was caught sitting by a security camera early in the evening.
YNW Melly admitted to killing his two friends “I did that shhh”… yeah he’s done, he gets the death penalty pic.twitter.com/1L7epybxUR
—Qura (@Qurandale) June 12, 2023