The Debrief With MyronGainesX - Fed Explains YNW Melly Mistrial. Will He Be Released？

00:00:00.720 And we are live. What's up, guys? Welcome to FedReacts. I know it's been a minute.

00:00:05.460 We're going to explain a bunch of that, guys, but let's get right into it.

00:00:08.940 Let's play the intro.

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00:00:58.340 All right, what's up, guys?

00:01:00.820 Welcome to FedReacts.

00:01:02.300 Today, we're going to be covering the Y&W Mellie murder trial.

00:01:05.840 As you guys know, I covered this case extensively.

00:01:09.080 I was probably one of the first, you know, bigger YouTubers to go into this thing and, you know, covered extensively.

00:01:19.960 Talk about the actual facts of the case.

00:01:21.880 Actually read the criminal complaint alongside you guys and show you guys all the evidence that the state had in this situation.

00:01:28.020 So, basically what went down, we have what you call a mistrial, guys.

00:01:34.980 But how did we get here?

00:01:36.760 Before I go ahead and talk about what a mistrial is and where we go from here, let's talk about the facts of the case, what went down, okay?

00:01:44.580 So, October 26th, 2018, okay?

00:01:50.600 Mellie and his friends leave a music studio, right, up here in Florida, okay?

00:01:55.980 And about 30, 40 minutes north of here.

00:01:59.760 I think it was in Broward County, somewhere up there.

00:02:02.180 I'm down here in Miami-Dade.

00:02:05.220 And what ends up happening is, next thing you know, Y&W Portland is going to the hospital saying,

00:02:12.820 yo, we got hit in a drive-by.

00:02:16.580 My two friends are dead, blah, blah, blah.

00:02:18.420 It gives this crazy story.

00:02:19.680 And the police are investigating, and they start figuring out, okay, you guys weren't involved in a drive-by shooting.

00:02:26.280 We think it's Mellie.

00:02:27.580 But let's go ahead real quick, guys, and summarize through the case.

00:02:30.720 Because I think, I don't think a lot of people actually know the facts of the case.

00:02:35.780 They just kind of know some of the stuff that happened.

00:02:37.920 And they watched some of the trial, but they don't really know everything.

00:02:40.280 So, what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and summarize the investigation, right?

00:02:43.660 We're going to go back in time a little bit, summarize, and we're going to go ahead and get into where we are now, right?

00:02:50.040 So, first, let's start with, who is Y&W Mellie, okay, guys?

00:02:54.280 So, Jamelle Maurice Demens, okay, or Demens, as they referred to him in the trial.

00:03:01.000 Born May 1st, 1999, known for Fresh Stains, Y&W Mellie, initialism for Young Nigga World Mellie.

00:03:05.760 Yes, that is the real acronym.

00:03:06.900 That's what it stands for, guys, right?

00:03:08.800 Is an American rapper and singer.

00:03:10.960 He is best known for his songs, Murder on My Mind.

00:03:12.880 Obviously, you guys, they did not use this song against him in the trial.

00:03:17.880 Mixed Personalities featuring Kanye West, Suicidal featuring Juice WRLD, and 223s featuring Glock 9, excuse me.

00:03:26.120 The first is considered his breakout, which garnered him further attention after being charged with double murder of his two fellow rappers in the Y&W Collective.

00:03:33.060 In November 2019, he released the debut of Mellie vs. Melvin, peaking number eight on the Billboard 200.

00:03:38.500 In February 2019, he was arrested and charged with two counts of premeditated murder and faced a life imprisonment without the possibility of parole or the death penalty if convicted.

00:03:47.700 He is also a suspect in the 2017 murder of a sheriff's deputy in Gifford.

00:03:53.660 In March 2019, Demens pleaded not guilty to double murder charges and is currently on trial.

00:03:58.340 And as you guys know, he, you know, we just recently got the mistrial.

00:04:02.140 So here's the arrest documents, right, right, guys, that he had.

00:04:05.520 And if you guys watched the first episode, I actually went through this extensively, but give you guys a quick little refresher here.

00:04:14.380 This is booking information, right?

00:04:16.160 Obviously, when he comes in, they go ahead and they take all his information, right?

00:04:20.620 Right.

00:04:20.900 Jamel Demens, or Demens, however they want to pronounce it.

00:04:26.180 And then we have, you go here.

00:04:29.200 Here's a probable cause affidavit, right?

00:04:31.020 On February 13, 2019, 1800 hours, subject Demens.

00:04:34.620 Jamel arrived in at the main jail facility, self-surrender himself.

00:04:40.700 A warrant check was completed and confirmed by record signician Green.

00:04:45.060 Subject is taken in custody for processing.

00:04:46.880 Okay.

00:04:47.940 And then this basically, all right, is all the stuff.

00:04:55.020 Now, this is where stuff gets, and here you can see him already, Mark A.

00:04:59.520 This is the lead investigator here, right?

00:05:02.180 So, Andy Williams, contrary to section 78 and 775 of the Florida Statute, honored about the 26th day of October in the year of 2018 in the county of Broward State, Florida,

00:05:13.780 Jamel Demens and Courtland Henry did, then and there unlawfully and feloniously, while acting as principles, kill and murder Christopher Thomas Jr., a human being,

00:05:22.660 by shooting him with a firearm with a premeditated intent to cause the death of said Christopher Thomas Jr.

00:05:27.680 And during the course thereof, Jamel Demens did actually possess and discharge a firearm.

00:05:32.520 And as a result, death was inflicted on Christopher Thomas Jr., contrary to sections such and such, right, of the Florida Statutes, right?

00:05:39.700 So, now we're going to get into the complaint affidavit, which lists out the, and then this was the arrest warrant that he got, right?

00:05:49.600 It said, you're arrested to, you're commanded to take Jamel Demens if that person be found in your country,

00:05:55.400 arrest and safely keep so that you may have the person's body before the judge.

00:05:59.560 So, this is what you get a lot of times once you file a complaint to go ahead and arrest somebody, right?

00:06:03.780 And then here is the actual affidavit, okay?

00:06:08.540 And this goes into the facts.

00:06:10.020 Now, I'm going to go ahead and let the chat decide, right?

00:06:15.320 If you guys want me to, because it was a while ago when I covered this.

00:06:18.060 If you guys want me to read through this, give me a one.

00:06:22.680 If you guys want me to just kind of go into what's going on now, give me a two.

00:06:27.620 So, give me a one if you guys want me to read through this so you guys understand all the facts of the case

00:06:31.400 and how we even got here, or two, uh-huh, and I know some of you guys are saying tissues.

00:06:37.980 Guys, I lost my voice a bit from all the filming, all right?

00:06:41.280 Or two if you guys want me to just get into the mistrawl stuff.

00:06:45.560 Let's see.

00:06:46.940 I'm looking here.

00:06:48.780 Looks like it's mostly twos.

00:06:50.740 All right, cool.

00:06:51.520 All right, all right, all right.

00:06:52.620 Awesome, awesome, awesome.

00:06:53.480 So, you guys are all aware of the facts.

00:06:55.980 Good, good.

00:06:57.340 Okay.

00:06:58.980 So, quick little recap then.

00:07:01.400 If you guys are aware of all the facts in general.

00:07:06.620 Just to give you guys a quick little refresher because a lot of people don't know this.

00:07:09.680 Melly, right, allegedly was sitting in the back seat.

00:07:12.880 This is YNW Portland right here sitting in the front left.

00:07:15.420 Then you got Sac Chaser on the right who's Williams.

00:07:19.160 And then Thompson is YNW Juvie sitting in the back right, okay?

00:07:23.800 And when Portland brought them to the emergency room, guys, they were sitting in these seats dead, okay?

00:07:30.760 And Melly was nowhere to be seen.

00:07:32.280 Now, why is that confusing to people?

00:07:34.240 Well, it's because you can see here, right?

00:07:37.640 Here's the surveillance footage from that day.

00:07:41.540 I'm going to turn the music off, guys, because I know I'm probably going to get a little copyright or something like that.

00:07:44.940 I'm playing it sped up a bit, okay?

00:07:46.900 Hold on.

00:07:49.660 So you can see Melly here getting, he was the last one to come out, by the way, because at this point all the other parties were in the car.

00:07:59.240 So he gets in, right, back left seat.

00:08:02.980 Then you're going to see where everyone else sat.

00:08:05.540 Boom, there's Juvie, right?

00:08:07.200 Right here.

00:08:08.820 YNW Juvie.

00:08:10.860 He's in the back.

00:08:11.700 Okay.

00:08:16.900 This is Portland.

00:08:20.920 Oh, wow.

00:08:22.140 Did they not?

00:08:22.840 God damn it.

00:08:23.440 I hate TikTok.

00:08:24.020 It's so useless.

00:08:24.720 All right.

00:08:24.880 Let me go back and play the original surveillance footage.

00:08:28.780 I didn't want to play the original for y'all, but I guess I have to because this thing didn't even show where everyone was sitting.

00:08:34.520 God, incompetent people everywhere.

00:08:36.500 All right.

00:08:37.360 And I'm going to go ahead and read some of these chats for y'all as well.

00:08:42.280 Give me one second, guys.

00:08:43.440 Oh, okay.

00:08:56.180 Is this it?

00:08:58.440 27.

00:08:58.920 No, that's not it.

00:08:59.560 Sorry, guys.

00:09:06.400 Studio.

00:09:06.760 Okay, here we go.

00:09:13.740 All right.

00:09:14.520 Okay.

00:09:15.300 Sorry about that, guys.

00:09:16.120 I'll show you on now.

00:09:18.540 All right.

00:09:19.720 So here, right?

00:09:22.160 Shout out to the Law and Crime Network.

00:09:23.140 So first, you're going to see this is Sack Chaser, right?

00:09:30.140 Gets in.

00:09:31.900 Going back.

00:09:32.920 Here he is right here.

00:09:36.400 We're going to speed this up, too, for y'all.

00:09:38.340 And then this is YNW Portland, okay?

00:09:47.180 And you guys can see, here he is right here, right?

00:09:53.980 So Sack Chaser and Portland are in.

00:09:57.060 And then these are the guys in the red Mitsubishi.

00:10:00.200 This guy, I think, ended up actually testifying for the prosecution.

00:10:08.680 This dude right here.

00:10:10.120 Bam.

00:10:10.460 Who's this?

00:10:10.920 This is YNW Melly right here, guys, in the jean jacket, coming out with the bag.

00:10:16.720 Right?

00:10:17.560 So where does he go?

00:10:18.980 He gets in the backseat, as you guys know.

00:10:26.060 And then here we go.

00:10:27.480 Here's Juvie.

00:10:28.060 Here we go.

00:10:30.200 And that's where they go.

00:10:35.900 And then they all dip out, right?

00:10:37.780 So now y'all know where they were sitting.

00:10:39.340 So now we're going to go ahead and react to the closing arguments, guys, okay?

00:10:42.920 So in a trial, okay, guys, the prosecution goes first.

00:10:47.520 They make their case.

00:10:48.900 The defense, right, is defending, cross-examining witnesses, et cetera, right?

00:10:54.000 And at the end, you have something called closing arguments.

00:10:56.980 And closing arguments, guys, is basically where each party gives a summarization of their case, the facts, and arguing for why the defendant is either guilty or innocent.

00:11:12.080 Or in this case, why the state might have not proved their case for the defense, right?

00:11:17.600 So we're going to go ahead and watch this video right here from Law and Crime Network, because I think it's very important that you guys understand what went down to the closing arguments.

00:11:24.560 And then we'll go into the mistrial part here.

00:11:29.280 Went on for five years.

00:11:32.160 The only person.

00:11:33.820 And that's the prosecutor right there.

00:11:35.020 Every piece of evidence points to is this defendant.

00:11:40.600 The Jolly Green Giant or the Midget was a shooter in this case.

00:11:45.960 They would either be closer to the car or further from the company.

00:11:50.920 And that's his defense attorney right there, Mellie's defense attorney.

00:11:54.200 Depending upon their size.

00:11:55.900 With a potential verdict on the horizon, we look at some of the highlights from the prosecution and defense battling it out in closing arguments in the YNW Mellie murder trial.

00:12:06.580 Welcome to Sidebar, presented by Law and Crime.

00:12:09.480 I'm Jesse Weber.

00:12:12.720 Well, folks, we have come to the end of YNW Mellie's double murder trial out of Broward County, Florida.

00:12:19.360 The murder on my mind rapper, whose real name is Jamel Demmons, is charged with the murders of his two friends and fellow YNW group rappers, Christopher Thomas Jr., or YNW Juvie, and Anthony Williams, or YNW Sack Chaser.

00:12:33.760 The men were found shot to death on October 26, 2018, after Mellie's co-defendant, Cortland Henry, also known as YNW Bortland, pulled up to the hospital with the bodies of Thomas and Williams in the car, claiming that they were all victims of a drive-by shooting.

00:12:48.600 However, the evidence has suggested, or at least as the prosecution has suggested, this was a staged drive-by shooting, and the shots actually came from inside the vehicle.

00:12:59.380 Prosecution even highlighted how the defendant was a member of a gang called the G-Shine Bloods.

00:13:03.420 And I'm going to talk about that because they spent a lot of time talking about Mellie being a blood gang member.

00:13:07.700 You guys can hear them throwing gangsters, et cetera.

00:13:09.500 But I want to talk about that here as well.

00:13:12.440 We can't forget that there is a lot at stake here because the death penalty is on the table if Mellie is convicted.

00:13:20.300 And that's just that.

00:13:21.360 The law changed in Florida.

00:13:23.400 It used to be you needed a unanimous vote for the death penalty.

00:13:27.040 Now the law is you only need an 8-4 vote by the jury.

00:13:31.480 So how will the jury decide?

00:13:33.480 Well, at the time of this recording, they are still deliberating.

00:13:36.280 But we wanted to take the time to recap the last things that this jury heard in that courtroom.

00:13:42.040 That is right, the closing arguments.

00:13:45.060 And as I said before, closing arguments, they're not evidence.

00:13:47.940 But this is the last attempt by the prosecution and the defense.

00:13:52.520 They go first.

00:13:54.460 Showing how.

00:13:55.180 So we're going to fast forward.

00:13:56.800 Inside the car.

00:13:58.700 Importantly, she delivered.

00:13:59.800 So she does a good.

00:14:00.600 She does a good job here.

00:14:01.600 She's going to talk about how the shots came inside from inside the car, guys.

00:14:05.580 Because remember, when YNW Portland was arrested by the police, or when he went to the police originally,

00:14:11.300 he said, oh, we were victims of a drive-by shooting.

00:14:15.440 But, you know, all the evidence shows that the shots came from inside the vehicle.

00:14:18.760 And I'm going to, don't worry, guys.

00:14:19.520 I'm going to also give you guys my final take on what I think is going to happen as well.

00:14:23.420 And she started with arguably the most important evidence.

00:14:27.480 Showing how the shooting happened inside the car.

00:14:30.640 All right, before we get into that.

00:14:32.320 Slippery Beats goes.

00:14:34.060 Myron, don't beat around the bush on this one.

00:14:35.380 What are your thoughts on the Zeno-Sinico situation?

00:14:37.340 How will this affect FNF moving forward?

00:14:39.420 It won't affect us at all, man.

00:14:42.020 It won't affect us at all.

00:14:43.740 We're going to keep doing what we do.

00:14:45.000 Giving y'all content.

00:14:45.800 Don't worry about that.

00:14:47.540 Will you ever cover Special Agent Kiki Camarena?

00:14:50.540 I just finished the last NARC doc.

00:14:52.040 We will.

00:14:52.600 Don't worry.

00:14:53.040 And that was, for some of you guys that are wondering, that was the E agent that was tortured in Mexico.

00:14:58.640 This idiot killed the sheriff's deputy, right?

00:15:00.380 And that's for Michael Canones.

00:15:01.820 It's alleged.

00:15:02.560 Never proven.

00:15:03.080 Junior goes, I'm sorry it came out that Mellie's mother said that nine of the 12 jurors voted Mellie not guilty.

00:15:09.160 Is it possible for her to know this information?

00:15:11.780 I don't know.

00:15:12.720 I mean, unless they came out and, like, actually said that.

00:15:15.380 But we're not, I'm not sure.

00:15:17.400 I'm not sure how many of them actually voted him as not guilty.

00:15:21.080 That seems like a lot.

00:15:21.780 So then we have one of the things that Detective Williams relied upon was the shirt of Cortland Henry.

00:15:30.120 So Cortland Henry, shirt.

00:15:31.420 If you recall, there is a spot of blood on the front of the shirt.

00:15:35.860 That blood.

00:15:36.480 You guys can see him coming out with the surveillance footage wearing this shirt.

00:15:39.720 And Drew filmed it.

00:15:41.160 This is the guy that records a lot of the music video.

00:15:43.120 If you guys, if you guys know, he shoots a lot of rap music videos.

00:15:46.240 As Kurt Robinson told you, belongs to Anthony Williams.

00:15:49.700 What does that tell you, Rayton Don?

00:15:51.180 That during the course of this shooting,

00:15:53.320 Cortland Henry has his back against the driver's seat and is driving wearing this shirt when the shooting occurs.

00:15:58.620 You know from that that he is not the shooter.

00:16:01.600 Why?

00:16:02.500 Because if he was the shooter, the angle to get that wouldn't have the blood on the front of the shirt.

00:16:06.780 It would have it coming across the driver's side.

00:16:08.860 So that's important.

00:16:09.540 There's no way that he could have shot the two victims from being in the driver's seat,

00:16:13.740 as you guys saw in the surveillance footage.

00:16:15.720 And towards the side of the shirt, not the front.

00:16:18.020 The entrance on Mr. Williams is back behind his left ear.

00:16:21.380 And the exit is up here in his area.

00:16:23.200 Okay, who's she talking about?

00:16:24.580 She's talking about, again, remember guys.

00:16:26.680 She's talking about Williams.

00:16:27.580 He got shot in the back and the bullet came out the top of his head.

00:16:31.740 Very violent scene.

00:16:32.620 That it's coming in at almost 90 degrees on the left side of his face.

00:16:36.680 And that there is stippling.

00:16:38.020 You learned about stippling.

00:16:38.740 You learned from Sergeant Williams, as well as from the medical examiners, that the firearm that inflicted that wound was approximately three inches to no more than three feet.

00:16:46.580 We know from the backseat passenger it could have been because there is stippling.

00:16:50.500 Strike K comes in and hits the front of the rear door.

00:16:54.560 So what she's showing is that, right, because remember guys, the wound patterns, right, you got one victim sitting here and you got another victim sitting here.

00:17:05.380 The wounds came from the left to right.

00:17:07.680 But the drive-by shooting bullets go left to, sorry, right to left.

00:17:12.580 So you got the wound patterns showing they were indefinitely shot from inside the vehicle, right, with the stippling.

00:17:17.740 The stippling is the burning marks that when a gun is shot at close range, right, and you got the wounds all on the left side of the victims.

00:17:24.660 But the bullets come in from right to left, so it doesn't make sense.

00:17:28.920 And that's what she's showing here.

00:17:30.740 That tells you that that door was open when that drive-by was staged.

00:17:35.000 Because as you heard from Sergeant Williams, if this was actually a drive-by.

00:17:38.100 So this is crazy.

00:17:39.540 So the door was open when one of the shots came in, which tells you that somebody got out from around here, walked around here, and started shooting.

00:17:49.080 This is what you would have seen.

00:17:50.540 Strikes coming in at different angles.

00:17:52.060 At obtuse angles, there were the angles of entry that would show either how they're speeding up or slowing down.

00:17:57.780 But instead, you have them coming in at 90 degrees.

00:18:00.700 The state has established that there was someone in that rear seat.

00:18:04.440 Someone who was in that rear seat is the person who committed this murder.

00:18:07.480 And who is that person that sat in that seat?

00:18:09.860 Well, Bradley goes back to the infamous surveillance footage of Demi.

00:18:12.640 And y'all see it right here.

00:18:14.760 Oh, sorry, guys.

00:18:16.120 Angie hit my sound effect board.

00:18:19.820 Yeah, and you guys can see here the surveillance footage I showed y'all before.

00:18:23.500 Yeah, you can just unplug it.

00:18:24.940 Thanks.

00:18:26.300 It's Henry Thomas and Williams leaving the recording studio that night.

00:18:28.880 So we have the studio video.

00:18:31.320 This is going to go through and you can track the defendant wearing that lyrical lemonade sweater all the way out to the Jeep where he gets in the spot.

00:18:40.100 All right.

00:18:40.280 Why is that important that they that they showed him walking out of the music studio the whole time with his phone in his hand?

00:18:45.720 Well, guys, as you know, the phone is what they used to track him the entire time.

00:18:50.600 It's important to notice, ladies and gentlemen, that phone always, always, always in his hand.

00:18:57.200 And let's talk about that phone because that was a crucial piece of evidence for the state.

00:19:01.660 Mr. Dennins, 772.

00:19:03.840 Now you guys all know YNW Mellie's number number right here.

00:19:07.000 772.

00:19:08.300 9807.

00:19:09.380 So we have here between 320 AM and 357 AM.

00:19:13.480 772-713-9807.

00:19:15.400 Mr. Dennins' phone and the 1981, Mr. Williams' phone are all tracking together.

00:19:19.800 All right.

00:19:20.300 So this is really smart that she did this.

00:19:21.940 So she went ahead and took Mellie's phone and Williams' phone, right?

00:19:28.220 Again, Williams right here, and Mellie.

00:19:31.240 And what do they do?

00:19:32.440 They chart them together as they're traveling together from point to point.

00:19:39.880 You've learned that the phones of Mr. Demons and Mr. Williams travel in from 3.20 a.m.

00:19:46.100 in 40 minutes all the way out to U.S. 27 in Denver Grove.

00:19:48.960 Okay, and out there is the middle of nowhere, guys, on the edge of the Everglades, by the way, that area.

00:19:53.340 Which, again, very important to note, was contrary to what Portland told the police of where they were shot during the drive-by.

00:20:02.220 He never mentioned this area right here, which is how the police were able to find this area in the first place was through the phones.

00:20:08.140 On October 26th of 2018, Jameson Francois' phone is out there in that same U.S. 27 in Denver Grove location.

00:20:16.360 And so is that in Mr. Demons.

00:20:18.960 Very odd location to go to.

00:20:22.400 Nothing out there.

00:20:24.140 That's evidence of a murder.

00:20:26.740 And ladies and gentlemen, you know the number of shell casings that were found at that team.

00:20:30.760 And you know that there's at least a group Q fired to the outside of that team, including the ones inside the vehicle.

00:20:38.580 In terms of the number of shots that are fired.

00:20:40.320 But they're going back there.

00:20:41.900 And just so you guys know, Jameson Francois is 100-track.

00:20:46.800 Who is 100-track?

00:20:47.640 That is Melly's manager.

00:20:50.940 Okay?

00:20:51.380 Look, just as you guys can see here.

00:20:53.240 Here he is, Jameson Francois.

00:20:54.640 Born May 1991.

00:20:56.120 Otherwise known as 100-track.

00:20:57.380 Is the CEO.

00:20:58.840 And he's basically Melly's manager.

00:21:01.880 This is him right here.

00:21:04.560 Oh, my bad.

00:21:05.740 Right here.

00:21:06.420 From Vlad TV.

00:21:07.680 Y'all know.

00:21:08.400 So I'm not even going to play the Vlad.

00:21:09.460 Because I know he's going to hit us with a copy immediately.

00:21:11.060 To Mr. Demons' phone at 4.40 a.m.

00:21:18.340 Remember the timing advance stands.

00:21:20.480 So at this point, at 4.40 a.m., you also have seen the Memorial Murmur video.

00:21:25.420 Where at 4.35, Memorial Hospital is right here.

00:21:28.940 At 4.35, five minutes earlier,

00:21:31.860 Portman Henry drives the Grey Jeep into the hospital with the two deceased victims.

00:21:36.000 Now, in other words, what the prosecution is arguing is that Demons was with the victims

00:21:39.400 and his phone places him at key locations like that remote area where the staged shooting

00:21:43.240 could have occurred.

00:21:44.100 That's my understanding of that.

00:21:45.120 Now, of course, the question is.

00:21:46.420 Yes, that's exactly what she's arguing.

00:21:48.000 And she's saying the reason why she's saying that is because

00:21:50.560 Melly's phone was with the victims' phone at the same time.

00:21:54.360 And it was in a secluded area that was contrary to what Y.W.

00:21:59.000 Portland told the police.

00:22:00.220 That's a key thing as well, is that there was a very clear attempt at deception, right?

00:22:07.700 So the police wouldn't know what really went down.

00:22:10.400 It was through the phone evidence that they were able to even, like,

00:22:12.680 really find where the vehicle was.

00:22:15.080 And when they went to that secluded area, guys, what did they find?

00:22:18.080 They found broken glass and they found bullet casings, right,

00:22:21.500 that matched the bullet casings that were in the vehicle.

00:22:24.460 Because remember, there was one 40 cal shell casing in the back left seat

00:22:29.680 where Melly was sitting, allegedly sitting, right?

00:22:32.260 And then they also found shell casings, I think, seven or eight shell casings

00:22:35.680 where that murder scene was, right, where they had tried to do the drive-by shooting

00:22:40.160 and they found broken glass.

00:22:41.780 The broken glass that they found matched, okay, the Jeep that they were in.

00:22:48.360 And that's how they were able to basically figure out that that was, in fact,

00:22:52.140 where the murders occurred, through the phones.

00:22:55.460 How do we know this is his phone?

00:22:56.900 Defense argued that the phone is used by him.

00:22:57.980 So now we're going to go into, okay, well, the phones put us at the crime scene.

00:23:01.420 How do we know that Melly is the actual user of said telephone?

00:23:05.000 Many people, they switch it off.

00:23:06.280 Can't say for sure who was using it.

00:23:07.420 Maybe somebody else was using it that day.

00:23:09.020 Christine Bradley had an answer for that.

00:23:10.740 And the other reason, too, why they made this argument, guys,

00:23:13.000 is because after Melly was in prison, other people used that phone.

00:23:16.700 So they made an argument saying, yo, well, it's not Melly's phone.

00:23:20.660 Other people have used this phone before.

00:23:22.680 How can you be so sure that he is the actual owner and user of that phone?

00:23:27.140 Because if I'm not mistaken, that phone is either under Melly's name,

00:23:29.440 under his, excuse me, not Melly's name, his mother or his manager 100 track.

00:23:34.640 It's under their name.

00:23:35.500 So they're saying, okay, number one, it's not under his name.

00:23:38.440 We know other people use it, et cetera.

00:23:39.980 So what the prosecution did was they showed conversations between Melly and his mom,

00:23:45.160 and they also showed his photo roll, camera roll,

00:23:48.740 and you can see a bunch of selfies in there.

00:23:50.480 So that's what they used to say that Melly was, in fact, the user of the phone.

00:23:55.400 And also, they looked at other messages where Melly gave his number out to people,

00:23:59.340 and he gave that number, which they're saying is the same number

00:24:02.820 that's linked to the same device that was found over there at the crime scene.

00:24:08.540 Ladies and gentlemen, you have a confession in this case.

00:24:10.020 So 4 p.m.

00:24:11.640 4 p.m.

00:24:12.560 I did that.

00:24:13.900 With a smiley face.

00:24:14.440 Oh, my God.

00:24:15.580 So right after the murder, because you guys can see here, 2018, October 26th,

00:24:24.840 I did that, author YNW Melly, and he's sending this to PZ Gambino,

00:24:30.740 and if I'm not mistaken, this was on Instagram, right, right after the murder.

00:24:34.780 I did that with a smiley face.

00:24:38.540 And that's when I said an opening.

00:24:40.380 Context is key.

00:24:41.840 And look at the messages between Mr. Demons and Mr. Gambino.

00:24:44.560 PZ Gambino is a blood gain number.

00:24:47.620 He uses all those same information, slang words, changing up the letters

00:24:50.760 that you learned about from Detective Colo.

00:24:53.880 October 26th, he asks to reach out to see how the defendant is doing,

00:24:57.020 and the defendant says, I did that.

00:24:59.580 It's a new grade spelling.

00:25:01.940 Oh, other times he uses D-A-T.

00:25:04.560 Okay, so, and very important.

00:25:07.960 So when it says, I did that, right, you guys can see here, I did that,

00:25:12.180 and then you can't see the emoji because this is coming from a Cellbrite guy,

00:25:16.020 so when they pull the Cellbrite, some of the characters get messed up,

00:25:19.100 but it had a smiley face on there, but it says, I did that.

00:25:22.400 Now, what the defense did, which is actually very clever that they did this,

00:25:25.280 they said, okay, if you guys are going to say that he said, I did that,

00:25:29.160 let's go through all his other text messages.

00:25:30.860 And as you guys know, they were trying to establish that it was his phone,

00:25:34.000 so they were going through all his text messages with his family members, etc.

00:25:36.460 And throughout all of it, Mellie writes that with D-A-T, that, okay?

00:25:42.940 And the defense tried to say, well, he didn't write this message

00:25:45.080 because they spelled it T-H-A-T.

00:25:47.280 So the prosecutor is going to counter that right now

00:25:48.960 with him allegedly only referring to that with the D-A-T.

00:25:53.460 He has a song that he's released called T-H-A-T,

00:25:55.960 and other times he uses D-A-T.

00:25:58.120 And you saw the song where he has a song that he's released called T-H-A-T in the song.

00:26:02.040 Yeah, that Instagram message right there.

00:26:04.020 Okay, so she's saying he has a song called T-H-A-T.

00:26:06.540 After the killings, that's big.

00:26:08.400 I did that, and then followed up with a message, shh.

00:26:10.900 What Bradley is referring to when she says that or that is the defense

00:26:14.000 because they seemingly argue that maybe Demons didn't send that message

00:26:16.660 because he usually uses that instead of that.

00:26:19.600 But you heard Bradley's response.

00:26:20.800 Finally, let's talk about a potential motive

00:26:22.440 because the question is, why on earth?

00:26:24.220 So this was a big one that defense was using.

00:26:27.960 A lot of people that support Mellie, they were saying,

00:26:29.480 yo, well, why would he kill them?

00:26:31.760 Like, these guys are friends.

00:26:33.040 And even one of the defense actually called the witness up, guys,

00:26:37.200 the only witness that they brought up, actually.

00:26:39.400 And the witness said, yo, there was no arguments or anything like that

00:26:42.960 or any issues going on prior at the music studio to the shooting.

00:26:48.500 This man wanted to kill his two friends.

00:26:49.960 Prosecution gave something for the jury to think about.

00:26:53.000 We've gone over the messages where you can see the animosity that there is.

00:26:58.380 All right.

00:26:58.740 So this is what he has the people saved in as his phone.

00:27:02.260 Okay.

00:27:02.780 So a brazy lady is his mom, and he's using the B instead of the C.

00:27:07.000 And as you guys know, in gang culture, as a blood member,

00:27:10.840 you don't use the word C.

00:27:12.340 It stops.

00:27:13.060 You use a B, right?

00:27:14.740 And then twin, that's Anthony Williams.

00:27:17.000 And then you got Juvie, Christopher Thomas, right?

00:27:19.660 This is the guy that was sitting next to him.

00:27:20.800 Anthony Williams is the guy that was sitting in front.

00:27:22.580 And then you got Frederick Gibbons.

00:27:24.300 Bang.

00:27:24.880 Who's bang?

00:27:25.600 Guys, that is Fredo Bang, the rapper.

00:27:27.100 There's a tension between Mr. Williams and Mr. Demons,

00:27:31.520 where Mr. Williams is making it clear that, and I will totally agree,

00:27:38.340 Mr. Demons was a talented musical artist.

00:27:43.360 Anthony Williams had not had that level of success.

00:27:47.320 Christopher Thomas didn't have that level of success.

00:27:50.020 They don't have that opportunity.

00:27:51.280 There's a bank account.

00:27:52.840 Hey, guys, do me a quick favor.

00:27:54.160 We got 3,100 y'all in here, man.

00:27:55.680 You guys could be anywhere else in the world, but you're here.

00:27:57.700 Thank you so much.

00:27:58.720 The only thing I ask is, like the video, guys.

00:28:00.520 Subscribe to the channel if you haven't already.

00:28:01.840 Some of you guys might be new to this channel.

00:28:04.420 So go ahead and like the video, man.

00:28:05.740 I see that we only got 496 likes.

00:28:07.360 We're closing in on 3,500 live viewers.

00:28:11.100 So please like the video.

00:28:12.760 Let's get to 3,000 likes.

00:28:15.600 But the defendant was making money.

00:28:18.240 He was the one that was the revenue source, the meal ticket, in the house.

00:28:22.700 Look at the messages.

00:28:23.340 Look at the tone of them.

00:28:24.360 Look who's asking for money.

00:28:26.100 Look at the way they communicate about things for the house, about food.

00:28:29.920 And look at Anthony Williams is saying, look, I'm the CEO.

00:28:33.560 The other's the artist.

00:28:35.300 Anthony is saying, myself, Mr. Demons, Mr. Thomas, we're the CEOs.

00:28:40.960 But at that time, Mr. Demons is the only one who's actually putting in the work.

00:28:44.140 Who's doing it.

00:28:44.880 Who's making the money.

00:28:45.680 Who's recording this.

00:28:46.240 Money is the root of all evil, guys.

00:28:47.980 Now let's get into the defense's closing argument in the YNW Mellie double murder trial.

00:29:17.980 And defense attorney Stuart Edelston first started by focusing on the problems in the investigation.

00:29:21.880 Now, just to make this very clear for you guys.

00:29:25.640 The defense's job, guys, is to defend.

00:29:28.500 Now, I know that sounds like, what the hell are you talking about?

00:29:30.720 Yeah, duh.

00:29:31.500 But when I say defend, that means as in they don't have to take an active role in defending.

00:29:36.960 They're standing ground, okay?

00:29:39.720 And it's the prosecution's job to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, by the way, that the defendant is, in fact, guilty.

00:29:48.380 The defense is under no obligation to present evidence.

00:29:51.020 The defense is under no obligation to bring witnesses.

00:29:53.780 The defense is under no obligation to do anything.

00:29:56.260 Honestly, if they wanted to, they could just sit there and cross-examine and or ask questions to defendants.

00:30:01.500 Or not even do that, but then they'd probably get in trouble for malpractice.

00:30:04.440 But you guys get the point.

00:30:06.000 Their burden of performance is never on the defense.

00:30:08.720 Their burden of performance is on the prosecution every single time.

00:30:12.420 It's the prosecution's job to prove that the individual did it, okay?

00:30:16.500 And if there's any doubt, any reasonable doubt, then the person walks, okay?

00:30:22.960 So what he's going to do here, guys, is he's going to focus on the failures of the government's investigation.

00:30:30.100 So I want you guys to really take that in and understand that.

00:30:33.400 It's not about arguing that he's innocent.

00:30:36.340 It's about arguing that the prosecution didn't go hard enough in proving that their defendant is guilty.

00:30:44.120 You understand?

00:30:45.100 And that's a much different frame to approach it from.

00:30:48.220 In the United States, it's innocent until proven guilty.

00:30:50.980 So that means that it's on the prosecution to prove that they're guilty, and key word is prove.

00:30:55.380 So what all the defense has to do is say, yo, did they actually prove it, though?

00:30:59.520 I know it looks bad, and it might be probable that my guy might have been the defendant here,

00:31:08.160 or maybe they committed the crime.

00:31:09.740 But do you know, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he committed the crime?

00:31:13.380 It doesn't matter if it's probable.

00:31:15.460 Probable isn't enough, okay?

00:31:17.140 And let me explain this real fast for y'all, because I want you guys to understand this,

00:31:20.180 because there seems to be confusion with this.

00:31:25.340 To make an arrest, you need something called probable cause, okay?

00:31:29.180 Let's say probable cause is right.

00:31:30.960 Let's use this mic as a standard, right?

00:31:33.840 So probable cause is right here, okay?

00:31:36.060 This is just to arrest the individual and indict them and charge them, okay?

00:31:39.920 An indictment in the United States is a formal charge of some kind of criminal violation, right?

00:31:45.300 Probable cause.

00:31:45.960 So whether they do a criminal complaint like I showed you guys before,

00:31:48.680 from a detective where he outlines all the evidence and he gets an arrest warrant,

00:31:51.720 or they go to a grand jury and they give the information out, excuse me,

00:31:56.000 they present their case and they get an indictment, criminal complaint or an indictment,

00:32:00.640 same exact thing.

00:32:01.400 The threshold is what?

00:32:02.660 Probable cause.

00:32:03.740 We're right here, okay?

00:32:05.000 However, to put someone in prison, right, and convict them,

00:32:11.060 you need something called beyond a reasonable doubt, especially in a trial, okay?

00:32:15.340 Now, the reason why most people don't go to trial is because they know that they're going to lose.

00:32:18.640 So what they'll do is they'll plead guilty, all right?

00:32:22.220 Most cases, about 90% plus of cases, somewhere,

00:32:25.080 actually more like 95% plus of cases in the United States plead out.

00:32:28.140 Cases rarely go to trial as you guys are seeing now.

00:32:29.900 But if you do go to trial, you got to prove that person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

00:32:32.640 So, reasonable doubt, guys, sorry, beyond a reasonable doubt, guys, is up here, okay?

00:32:39.000 So, again, probable cause is right here.

00:32:42.280 This is just to arrest the individual, get him indicted and formally charged and get him into the system.

00:32:46.840 Now, beyond a reasonable doubt is up here, you understand?

00:32:50.140 So, the defense, their job is to say, yo, you didn't prove all the way up here.

00:32:57.500 You might have probable cause that my defendant did this.

00:33:01.040 Probably, maybe, probable.

00:33:03.760 But is it beyond a reasonable doubt up here?

00:33:06.420 No, it's not.

00:33:08.040 That's what the defense is going to do right here in this closing argument.

00:33:11.880 They didn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that my client was guilty.

00:33:14.700 Give me words in the chat that helped you guys understand the perspective of how criminal cases are done, especially from a trial sense.

00:33:22.840 It's not the defense's job to prove the case, guys.

00:33:26.280 It's on the prosecution.

00:33:28.040 I think that's something that gets kind of glazed over.

00:33:35.160 And isn't, people say, oh, the defense didn't do anything or the defense did a silly job.

00:33:38.580 The defense doesn't have to do anything.

00:33:39.580 They just have to make sure, they have to make the prosecution look terrible, or make them look, excuse me, incompetent, which you guys are going to see here.

00:33:46.300 So, let's go ahead into the summary of the defense.

00:33:48.640 October 26th, that day of the shooting.

00:33:51.280 I'm glad that you guys, it's making sense.

00:33:53.540 Perfect, perfect.

00:33:54.280 Awesome.

00:33:55.700 We learned immediately that that chief was taken to a secure area, and it was searched for over 15 hours.

00:34:01.940 Because about three years later, miraculously, even though it was searched for hours by crime scene technicians,

00:34:07.080 Sergeant Williams comes into the scene at the request of the state of Florida, this particular prosecutor right here.

00:34:14.740 And miraculously, he's...

00:34:15.660 All right, so he's taking digs.

00:34:16.660 What is he doing?

00:34:17.760 He's trying to say that the police are incompetent, and an investigator had to come in way after the fact,

00:34:23.520 and they did have to do multiple searches.

00:34:25.380 And then let's see what he says next.

00:34:26.580 He finds additional evidence, two projectiles, and a bloodstain that, obviously, everyone else missed.

00:34:33.220 That should tell you something about the quality of this investigation.

00:34:35.540 Bam.

00:34:36.460 So, if someone else had to come in, and he found some vital evidence,

00:34:42.840 so that tells you that everyone else messed up.

00:34:46.160 They didn't take this case seriously.

00:34:47.420 They were lazy.

00:34:48.840 So, this investigation wasn't taken seriously.

00:34:52.100 That's what he's alleging, right?

00:34:53.480 And since they didn't take this investigation seriously, the evidence is weak.

00:34:57.400 All the pictures of the jeep, all bloody, blood all over the place.

00:35:02.820 And we learned that you could spray and determine if there was blood right there on the carpet,

00:35:06.540 even though you don't see it.

00:35:08.280 Why in the heck don't you get a search warrant for the house?

00:35:12.240 Why in the heck don't you?

00:35:13.540 Don't tell us.

00:35:15.740 We didn't know where he lived.

00:35:17.080 Don't tell us it was months later.

00:35:18.620 Okay, why is this important?

00:35:20.780 He's trying to say, yo, you guys had the car.

00:35:24.780 You guys searched the car.

00:35:26.880 You guys had it forever.

00:35:29.260 You searched it for damn near a day, right?

00:35:31.720 18 hours, whatever it may be he just said.

00:35:34.160 Right?

00:35:34.520 And you found this blood, all this evidence.

00:35:36.260 Why don't you get a search warrant for Melly's house?

00:35:37.900 You know where he lived.

00:35:38.900 Why don't you guys get a search warrant for the house?

00:35:41.220 Right?

00:35:41.940 So, he's trying to say that they're lazy, and they didn't go ahead and take the steps that they were supposed to take.

00:35:45.520 And that's why the evidence is lacking.

00:35:48.620 In the car, four years later, because they take, execute a search warrant on his house, his apartment, and his storage unit.

00:35:59.020 They find ammunition in there.

00:36:01.860 They find, in the storage unit, I think, three holsters and gun locks.

00:36:07.520 We don't know what type of guns belong to those holsters.

00:36:11.480 We don't know what type of guns were the gun locks to.

00:36:14.860 All we know is there are three guns missing based upon the three holsters.

00:36:21.080 And Moretti doesn't even answer.

00:36:24.060 Moretti is a lead detective.

00:36:25.340 Now, again, guys, right?

00:36:27.020 As a guy that's a former investigator, I'll tell y'all, like, this isn't really that important for them to be doing.

00:36:32.260 Like, what are you talking about?

00:36:33.220 Like, finding the guns from the storage unit?

00:36:36.420 That's not really important.

00:36:37.420 But what is the defense doing?

00:36:38.540 He's doing a fantastic job of trying to say the police are incompetent.

00:36:41.780 Okay?

00:36:42.400 That's his job.

00:36:43.280 Yo, they didn't do everything.

00:36:44.340 They didn't do everything.

00:36:45.300 Did they turn every rock?

00:36:46.840 No, they didn't.

00:36:47.460 Where are these weapons are?

00:36:51.260 What are these weapons?

00:36:56.040 Should it concern you?

00:36:57.260 Yes.

00:36:58.620 Should it show you a lack of evidence?

00:37:01.560 Yes.

00:37:05.940 Ask yourself.

00:37:06.900 They keep telling us to use your common sense.

00:37:08.740 Use your common sense.

00:37:09.500 Please, ask yourself why a lead detective of a double homicide would not ask.

00:37:15.800 Jameson, Francois, where the hell are they going?

00:37:18.140 They did absolutely nothing once they got that surveillance tape.

00:37:21.660 Blinders.

00:37:23.100 Blinders.

00:37:23.460 All right, the surveillance tape that we're talking about, guys, is the one where we saw Melly go into the backseat.

00:37:28.100 He's saying that they basically just unfairly targeted Melly the entire time once they got the footage from the music studio.

00:37:37.300 We're not going to look to the left.

00:37:38.600 We're not going to look to the right.

00:37:39.760 We're just going to direct everything to this young man.

00:37:43.560 The main idea here is that this investigation was rushed.

00:37:46.160 It wasn't thorough.

00:37:46.960 And all police did was have tunnel vision and focus on YNW Melly.

00:37:50.000 You might recall that in the opening statements delivered by the defense, they said that law enforcement went after Melly because he was a high-profile person.

00:37:54.940 And the defense actually goes on to put more emphasis not on Melly, but someone else, Cortland Henry, and his role in all of this.

00:38:01.960 We know that Cortland Henry's in balance.

00:38:04.060 We all know that, according to the statement, Cortland Henry lied to the police.

00:38:09.920 Okay.

00:38:10.560 Just so you guys know, it was never Melly that gave the statement about them getting hit in a drive-by.

00:38:19.420 It was Cortland Henry that did that.

00:38:20.980 Now, Melly in his documentary made a, you know, there was a, they said it as well, but he didn't overtly actually say it himself like, oh yeah, we got attacked in a drive-by.

00:38:31.260 Melly never gave a statement to the police.

00:38:32.680 It was Henry that said this ridiculous story when he brought the two bodies to the hospital.

00:38:37.960 So the defense is trying to put the blame on Henry, right?

00:38:49.680 Rightfully so.

00:38:50.860 They're trying to protect their client, right?

00:38:52.440 They don't care about Henry.

00:38:53.480 They care about their client.

00:38:54.740 And a lot of times, guys, when you end up in cases like this where you have multiple conspirators, et cetera, the first thing the defense does for each of those clients is they're going to attack other conspirators in the case to show that, hey, this guy is the most culpable.

00:39:09.240 He's the mastermind, et cetera.

00:39:10.500 My guy was just taking orders, blah, blah, blah.

00:39:12.040 They tried to minimize the role of their client while simultaneously increasing the role of the other, of the other defendants to make their defendant not look as bad.

00:39:21.960 Right?

00:39:22.340 So this is a common tactic by defense.

00:39:24.120 So you got to throw other people under the bus.

00:39:25.940 Right?

00:39:26.260 And I'm sure Melly's kind of like, yeah, you know, it is what it is.

00:39:29.360 You know, at the end of the day, I got to look out for number one.

00:39:31.240 And remember, Courtland Henry is a co-defendant in this case.

00:39:44.320 He's going to be tried separately.

00:39:45.640 The driver.

00:39:46.300 But then the defense focused on their sole witness, the only person that they called to the stand, Adrian Davis.

00:39:51.720 So this guy, right?

00:39:54.600 And I broke this down on another episode where we covered this live.

00:40:00.460 This guy basically, Melly Bezos thing, he needs to get this guy a fucking record deal or something.

00:40:06.580 He basically gives a story saying that Melly got in the Mitsubishi with them and he was there when the news broke that the friends were killed.

00:40:15.820 So he's not putting Melly in the vehicle, which is huge because the prosecution's case relies upon them putting Melly in the vehicle.

00:40:24.680 Right?

00:40:24.840 I know some of y'all were in the chat when I was doing this thing live.

00:40:27.280 We're saying, oh, this dude's a rat.

00:40:28.860 And I'm like, are you guys stupid?

00:40:30.940 Like, this dude is literally testifying.

00:40:33.900 Under penalty of perjury, by the way, because we all know this story's capped.

00:40:38.340 But he's testifying that Melly was in their car and not necessarily in the Jeep or the Jeep that was involved in the murder.

00:40:48.160 So, guys, just because you take the stand does not mean you're a snitch.

00:40:51.940 You can be taking the stand in your homie's favor, like in this case.

00:40:55.460 So this is one of those exceptions where he's taking the stand and I would not consider this guy a rat whatsoever.

00:41:01.060 The person that they called to the stand, Adrian Davis.

00:41:03.960 We had to call Adrian Davis.

00:41:06.820 And you learned that Adrian Davis showed up in the state attorney's office and gave a sworn statement.

00:41:12.580 They never told you this.

00:41:15.440 We did.

00:41:16.260 We don't have to do any of this.

00:41:19.320 And Adrian Davis said, I told you.

00:41:22.220 He got in the car.

00:41:23.740 How do I know that?

00:41:24.900 Because I was woken up when someone was crawling in the back seat.

00:41:28.100 How do I know that?

00:41:29.060 When we got to Melly's house, he's the one who had to open the door.

00:41:33.860 Because only he and Courtland Henry had the key to his house.

00:41:37.000 Why do we have to do that?

00:41:40.920 Why did they conceal that from you?

00:41:42.880 Why did they hide that from you?

00:41:44.720 Now that was a major point for the defense.

00:41:46.520 Because Adrian Davis testified that everything seemed normal before the shooting.

00:41:49.500 He was actually with all of them at the recording studio before the shooting took place.

00:41:52.120 He said there were no fights, nothing like that.

00:41:53.540 And then he said that Melly got into the jeep that was leaving the recording studio.

00:41:56.260 He went into a Mitsubishi.

00:41:57.380 And at some point, he says Melly left that jeep and hopped into the Mitsubishi.

00:42:01.340 He doesn't remember when because he was basically asleep.

00:42:02.960 He was intoxicated.

00:42:03.880 And that they were together when they found out that Thomas and Williams were.

00:42:05.940 He was high and drunk because they had been drinking and smoking guys when they were doing that studio session.

00:42:11.280 Right?

00:42:11.640 And then when the prosecution brought him on cross, he didn't have many answers.

00:42:16.280 If you guys don't believe me, go ahead and watch that episode on my Fed.

00:42:19.880 It's actually funny.

00:42:20.480 She started making fun of him.

00:42:22.180 You know, why were you using Melly's account to get girls?

00:42:25.000 Do you have trouble getting girls yourself?

00:42:26.340 And I was like, bro, what the hell?

00:42:29.800 She was kind of making fun of him on cross.

00:42:32.940 But yeah.

00:42:34.200 Yeah.

00:42:35.940 That's an alibi.

00:42:37.060 And you can maybe understand why the defense only called one witness in this case.

00:42:39.900 Because if the jury believes that, then they say Melly wasn't in the jeep when the shootings happened.

00:42:43.640 And after the defense presented their closing argument, the prosecution had a quick rebuttal argument.

00:42:47.880 Here's a sample.

00:42:48.200 You've heard an hour and ten minutes of speculation.

00:42:52.420 Let's talk about Adrian Davis, AD.

00:42:54.660 So why would counsel ask me why I wouldn't call him?

00:42:57.600 That assumes the witness is credible.

00:42:59.300 That assumes the witness is telling the truth.

00:43:01.260 That assumes that Adrian Davis' testimony is consistent with every other sworn statement, deposition, and trial testimony in this case.

00:43:06.720 If the witness is not credible, and doesn't agree with any other piece of evidence in the case, I'm not going to call him.

00:43:15.720 And there's no evidence whatsoever that supports this, oh, the phone was left in the car here.

00:43:21.820 There's none.

00:43:22.520 Phones don't send messages and walk 1,300 steps by themselves.

00:43:26.020 There's no evidence whatsoever that anybody else got in that jeep.

00:43:29.440 But the evidence says show, the defendant was consistently in that jeep, and that jeep never stopped during that whole course of travel until it got to the edge of the Everglades.

00:43:36.960 The edge of the Everglades, where there's no witnesses, where there's no cameras, where they can stage a crime scene to try and get away with her.

00:43:44.160 And there you have it.

00:43:45.180 We will wait and see who the jury believed and who they did not.

00:43:48.040 That's all we have for you here on Sidebar, everybody.

00:43:49.640 Thank you so much for joining us.

00:43:50.580 All right.

00:43:51.460 So that right there, guys.

00:43:54.120 Okay, so now we're going to go ahead and go into what is a mistrial in Florida, right?

00:43:58.500 So here we go.

00:43:59.960 So this leads to a mistrial, right, guys?

00:44:03.480 And the jury was deadlocked.

00:44:04.900 They didn't want to go.

00:44:05.620 They didn't want to come to.

00:44:06.920 They couldn't come to a resolution.

00:44:08.540 And it means the defendant is not acquitted of the crime, but is not yet convicted either and will likely return to jail unless they have bonded out until the new trial begins.

00:44:15.920 Mistrials do not happen very often, but they clearly do.

00:44:19.420 They certainly do happen.

00:44:20.620 All right.

00:44:21.000 So I just want to make this very clear because a lot of people said, yo, he's going to be always going to be out.

00:44:26.060 Guys, he's not acquitted, okay?

00:44:29.080 He's not innocent yet.

00:44:30.360 What that means basically is that they're going to have to redo, okay, they're going to have to redo this trial, right?

00:44:37.440 So right after this trial was done, the lawyer asked her, okay, or actually, you know what?

00:44:43.260 Let me see if I can find the video for y'all.

00:44:44.920 Hold on.

00:44:45.680 I'll find it right now.

00:44:46.660 All right, so mistrial, I'll show you guys versus, where is it?

00:45:03.040 And they were trying to go for the mistrial earlier on in the trial, if you guys remember, right?

00:45:09.780 Because it buys them a bit more time.

00:45:14.100 No.

00:45:15.060 God damn it.

00:45:16.400 Let me see if it does.

00:45:17.260 Off the topic six, we begin with a stunning development in the double murder trial of YNW Mellie.

00:45:21.280 After days of deliberations, the jury was deadlocked, leading the judge to declare a mistrial.

00:45:24.840 A local tense, Joseph Ojo, was at the courthouse in Fort Lauderdale with reaction.

00:45:27.540 And what happens next?

00:45:28.080 And decisions ending after three days, with the jury not able to come up with a unanimous decision to decide the fate of YNW Mellie.

00:45:33.340 I'm going to do this to declare a mistrial.

00:45:35.040 After considering all the...

00:45:35.760 All right, so hold on, let me...

00:45:37.800 This one we don't need to do so fast.

00:45:41.720 With the jury not able to come up with a unanimous decision to decide the fate of YNW Mellie.

00:45:47.040 I'm going to do this to declare a mistrial.

00:45:49.740 So, bam, just declare...

00:45:50.820 He declares a mistrial.

00:45:51.740 Considering all the facts, jurors in YNW...

00:45:53.660 Which basically means that the whole trial was just invalid, okay?

00:45:56.600 Because, remember, there's a couple of ways to go to get a mistrial, guys.

00:46:00.260 You can get a mistrial through, you know, a mistake by the prosecution.

00:46:04.860 You can get it from a mistake by defense.

00:46:07.220 Or you can get it through what we see here, which is the jury being deadlocked.

00:46:12.240 Not being able to come back with a decision.

00:46:16.640 Okay?

00:46:17.040 So that means pretty much that some people felt that he was guilty.

00:46:20.020 Some people felt that he was innocent.

00:46:21.400 And they were not going to change their stance.

00:46:23.040 YNW Mellie's double murder trial unable to come up with a unanimous decision Saturday.

00:46:28.360 On Friday, they asked for cell phone records and told the judge they were deadlocked.

00:46:32.300 Mellie's defense team thanking the jury for their efforts throughout the trial by adding they were expecting a different result.

00:46:38.160 We are somewhat disappointed that Mellie is not walking out the door with us.

00:46:44.300 Mellie, whose real name is Jamel Demmons, is accused of murdering Christopher Thomas Jr.

00:46:48.240 and Anthony Williams in October of 2018, surveillance video shows the group leaving a Fort Lauderdale recording studio that night.

00:46:55.460 And prosecutors say Mellie shot and killed Williams and Thomas soon after.

00:46:59.340 Jamel Demmons was sitting in the back seat of that jeep.

00:47:01.940 And he was the one that fired the fatal shots that killed Christopher Thomas and Anthony Williams.

00:47:06.220 Investigators believe Mellie and another friend then drove the car to a secluded part of Miramar,

00:47:10.960 where they are said to have staged a drive-by shooting to use as a cover story.

00:47:14.360 But Mellie's defense team has maintained there are major holes in the state's case,

00:47:18.360 even bringing their own witness who said Mellie learned about the murders at the same time as the rest of their friend group.

00:47:23.860 There's a lack of evidence.

00:47:26.080 There is a conflict in the evidence.

00:47:28.680 And the evidence itself, and the investigation itself, stinks.

00:47:36.840 And the jury did have a chance to decide on a lesser charge this case.

00:47:40.080 So, in the state of Florida, guys, they have – so, once he declared that it was a mistrial,

00:47:44.840 the state of Florida, they have 90 days, okay, to decide what the prosecution wants to do.

00:47:49.780 So, the prosecution has a couple options.

00:47:51.140 They can either, A, retry it or – or actually, A, three things.

00:47:57.220 A, retry it, right, with the same exact charges.

00:47:59.680 B, drop some of the charges and charge it maybe under charges that might be a little bit easier to prove

00:48:05.140 because clearly they didn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt, which is why the jury was deadlocked.

00:48:11.120 Or C, Mellie takes a plea bargain and they work something out, right?

00:48:15.380 So, what I foresee here, when they asked, the prosecution automatically said,

00:48:20.820 yeah, well, we can reset for, you know, in 90 days and go, right?

00:48:23.720 Because once you do a mistrial and you do that second trial, it's kind of like they're on a speedy trial type timeline.

00:48:32.320 They're not like it was before.

00:48:33.680 It took them damn near five years to get this thing to trial in the first place.

00:48:36.260 Guys, this murder occurred in 2018.

00:48:39.080 October 26, 2018 was when the murder happened.

00:48:41.360 This trial started in the summer of this year.

00:48:44.080 That just shows you how backed up the Florida state system is.

00:48:48.000 And there was a bunch of other, like, big trials going on.

00:48:50.360 You know, the Parkland shooter was going on, et cetera.

00:48:52.040 So, that's another reason why I was delayed.

00:48:54.720 But either way, right?

00:48:57.020 Those are three things that they can do.

00:48:58.920 What I think is going to happen is the prosecution is going to just try it again.

00:49:03.180 It is what it is.

00:49:03.900 I don't see them backing off.

00:49:05.180 I see them continuing to try to prosecute this case.

00:49:07.600 This is one of the biggest cases in Broward County history.

00:49:11.120 So, they're not going to let this go.

00:49:12.760 They're going to keep going.

00:49:14.180 Mellie's more than likely not going to take a plea deal.

00:49:16.280 And I don't think that they're going to try to drop it to, you know, a manslaughter charge or something else like that.

00:49:20.420 But they're going to continue to push.

00:49:23.500 Now, I wrote down here some notes, right, as to why I think the prosecution failed, okay, in proving beyond a reasonable doubt.

00:49:33.100 Because you guys know my stance on this, right?

00:49:35.320 I told y'all with the evidence that they have, he 100% did it, right?

00:49:40.420 He did it.

00:49:41.220 It is what it is.

00:49:42.020 That's my personal take on it after looking at the evidence.

00:49:45.020 You know, reading through the complaint, I've spent so much time analyzing this case.

00:49:49.320 Everyone in this chat knows it.

00:49:50.780 I know it.

00:49:51.740 He shot them and killed them.

00:49:52.940 He was the only person in the backseat.

00:49:54.220 The phone evidence shows this.

00:49:55.560 I mean, hell, the phone puts him there.

00:49:57.380 And for all the people that say, well, we don't know that because he might have left the car, right, and left his phone in the vehicle.

00:50:03.580 Okay, please explain to me 1,300 steps, right, after the fact and phone calls being made on that phone.

00:50:09.800 No, Melly used the phone because he actually, he was in the area.

00:50:13.300 Someone came and picked him up.

00:50:14.460 He made a FaceTime call.

00:50:15.660 He was sending out messages.

00:50:17.560 So, even if you're going to go ahead and have the theory that the phone was in the, like, let's say he left, right?

00:50:22.220 Let's say he actually didn't get in that other vehicle.

00:50:23.800 He got in that Mitsubishi and left.

00:50:25.800 And the phone stayed in the car.

00:50:28.760 And some other mysterious person got in and shot and killed him.

00:50:31.400 Well, explain to me, someone using that phone, using a FaceTime call, text messages, 1,300 steps, et cetera.

00:50:37.040 No, he killed them, guys.

00:50:38.800 He killed them.

00:50:39.320 Like, it is what it is.

00:50:40.300 We know he killed them.

00:50:42.700 However, okay, this is very important right here.

00:50:45.680 This is literally the transition point, okay?

00:50:48.760 It does not matter what you know.

00:50:53.040 It only matters what you can prove, okay?

00:50:57.680 One more time for y'all, all right?

00:50:59.520 Because I really, really want to get this in.

00:51:01.500 Like, get this, like, into your guys' heads.

00:51:03.580 And I had to learn this the hard way when I was an agent, okay?

00:51:07.200 It doesn't matter what you know.

00:51:10.340 It only matters what you can prove.

00:51:13.460 And in this case, I'm going to have to go ahead and say it.

00:51:17.440 The state didn't go hard enough with proving that Melly was the murderer, all right?

00:51:25.460 And I'm going to tell you what I think were some of the issues as to why they did that, okay?

00:51:31.160 Told y'all before, I like Melly.

00:51:33.700 I listen to his music.

00:51:34.580 I don't listen to much hip-hop.

00:51:35.440 But when I do, he's not bad.

00:51:36.800 I like him, okay?

00:51:38.300 So I'm not biased.

00:51:39.320 If anything, I'm biased in his favor.

00:51:41.500 But when I looked at the evidence, I was like, bro, this guy did it, bro.

00:51:44.140 Like, there's no way around this.

00:51:45.020 He did it, okay?

00:51:46.440 If he walks out of this, I'm not going to be mad.

00:51:48.080 I'll be like, okay, it is what it is.

00:51:49.280 He's free.

00:51:49.920 I'm not going to be like, oh, what the hell?

00:51:51.320 And get all mad.

00:51:52.000 I am completely in the middle with this because I like his music, right?

00:51:56.600 I like the guy.

00:51:57.640 I don't have a problem with him, like, personally.

00:51:59.780 However, objectively looking at the evidence, he 100% did this.

00:52:03.220 He shot them, boys, all right?

00:52:04.980 And we know that there's motive and everything, and all the evidence proves this.

00:52:08.500 However, the state dropped the ball.

00:52:12.340 They did not prosecute this thing, or they didn't argue this thing, excuse me.

00:52:17.020 They didn't argue this thing hard enough in court.

00:52:20.540 They didn't go, they didn't present the evidence in the best way.

00:52:24.200 Because the evidence is solid, it's just that they didn't present it that way.

00:52:26.680 And I wrote down some things that I think messed them up, all right?

00:52:29.780 Before I do that, go over what I think messed them up.

00:52:36.200 Let's see here.

00:52:37.120 I'll read these chants.

00:52:39.040 School Scooter goes, just finished Europa today.

00:52:41.620 All I can say is, wow.

00:52:42.900 Yeah.

00:52:43.800 You guys go watch that one if you want.

00:52:45.800 Would the mom really know what the numbers of the votes are?

00:52:48.020 Were Melly's mom capping?

00:52:49.700 She said it was nine not guilty to three guilty.

00:52:54.000 She might be capping.

00:52:54.960 I'm not going to lie to y'all.

00:52:55.840 But I'm not sure.

00:52:56.580 So is he absolved of all the charges retrial?

00:52:59.020 He's going to do another trial.

00:53:01.480 Myron, don't tell me not to worry about it.

00:53:02.780 You need to be cautious.

00:53:03.480 Zena, she's toxic and dangerous.

00:53:04.720 If things don't go her way, she'll expose you next.

00:53:06.640 Nah, man, don't worry.

00:53:07.340 We'll be fine.

00:53:08.900 You guys are really invested in her and Sneeko.

00:53:12.320 Do you believe the state of Florida should have tried YNW Portland first

00:53:15.460 and gotten him to flip on Millie to secure the conviction like the video?

00:53:17.840 Bro, you are the head of the game, Candace.

00:53:20.780 Yes.

00:53:21.100 If I was a state, I would be pushing to do the Portland trial right now, okay?

00:53:29.460 Because if they can go ahead and convict Portland, he's going to be heavily incentivized to cooperate.

00:53:35.840 Now, as you guys know, at the beginning of this trial, he was supposed to take the stand.

00:53:39.240 And I don't know why he didn't take the stand.

00:53:40.660 Maybe he got a cool fee or he changed his mind or something like that.

00:53:42.860 But there was speculation that he was going to take the stand, okay?

00:53:47.660 Maybe the prosecution didn't think they needed him, but I'm going to get into that here in a little bit as well.

00:53:52.920 Good question.

00:53:54.980 How far was the studio from the murder scene?

00:53:56.720 It looked like it was about 40 minutes away looking at the phone information.

00:54:00.440 Let's be real.

00:54:01.100 If they let him out, he's going to do some stuff again.

00:54:03.200 Do you think if he's on – if you have murder on your mind, you can stay out of trouble?

00:54:07.660 Okay.

00:54:08.680 You ever going to do a vid on the Tay-K case?

00:54:10.560 I will in the future.

00:54:11.300 Can I have a music career while working in law enforcement?

00:54:14.800 Taj the Beast is – you can, but it's going to be – the two kind of contradict each other.

00:54:19.160 It depends on what genre of music you're going to do.

00:54:21.140 But, you know, if you're going to be a rapper talking about, yeah, I'm going to shoot and kill and all this other stuff,

00:54:24.620 well, you can't really be a cop, bro.

00:54:26.400 It's not going to make sense, okay?

00:54:27.740 And it could probably cause you some issues with internal affairs in the future.

00:54:30.080 So it depends on the genre of music that you're making.

00:54:33.120 And then, Mason, have you read over the Tay-K case file?

00:54:36.260 It looks very, very bad.

00:54:37.380 Even if the only part of it is valid, he's for sure guilty.

00:54:41.180 He's been watching them a while now, so it kind of sucks.

00:54:43.960 Well, remember, bro, there's a lot of exculpatory evidence, right?

00:54:46.580 The girls that made the accusations, especially that Emma chick or whatever, she's a lifelong scammer, my friend.

00:54:52.100 She's been – she did this to seven other individuals.

00:54:53.920 Actually, one of them ended up, you know – what's the word I want – did a self-deletion.

00:55:00.140 So, you know, it is what it is.

00:55:03.200 The Tates are innocent, bro.

00:55:05.680 But I have looked over the case file.

00:55:09.380 Six gorzillion cookies can't be baked in four years?

00:55:14.480 I see what you did there, sir.

00:55:16.200 I see what you did there.

00:55:17.120 We're on YouTube, though, so I can't go all the way in with that, all right?

00:55:22.540 You guys, man.

00:55:24.160 Daika, it's not what you know.

00:55:25.260 It's what you can prove, Denzel Washington.

00:55:26.840 Yeah, yeah.

00:55:27.820 It's what you can prove, man.

00:55:28.920 And in this case, it's not just what you can prove.

00:55:30.880 It's what can you argue in court in a compelling fashion so that people understand and believe you.

00:55:36.380 It goes a step further.

00:55:38.060 When you go to trial, it goes a step further.

00:55:40.720 So here's a couple of the – now we're going to go into what I think some of the mistakes were from the prosecution watching this trial.

00:55:47.240 Number one, the prosecutor needed help.

00:55:53.940 I am shocked that she did not have a second and third chair prosecutor with her.

00:56:00.860 What is a second and third chair?

00:56:02.780 Well, guys, when you go to trial, okay, the lead attorney, right, is the attorney that basically is the main prosecutor in the investigation, right?

00:56:11.760 Then you have a second and, in some cases, a third or even fourth chair if the case is big enough.

00:56:16.260 And that means you have other attorneys or prosecutors helping you out running the case.

00:56:21.380 They make arguments as well.

00:56:22.700 As you guys can see, Mellie had three different lawyers at the table with him, and each of them took turns basically objecting, giving summaries, giving statements, cross-examining witnesses, et cetera, okay?

00:56:35.080 Kind of like if you look at O.J. Simpson's team, right?

00:56:39.020 He had like four to five different attorneys, you know, all having different specializations and working together.

00:56:44.620 They called it the dream team.

00:56:45.560 And I talked about that in the O.J. Simpson case as well, how he beat that case, right?

00:56:50.100 He had a lot of good defense attorneys.

00:56:52.680 And even though we all know O.J. killed his wife, okay, Nicole Simpson, we know he killed him.

00:56:59.680 Everybody knows he killed him.

00:57:01.520 The reason why he got away is because the state couldn't prove it, okay?

00:57:06.620 And they couldn't prove it in court, and they had issues with witnesses being, you know, racist and all the other stuff, you know, Mark Furman or whatever.

00:57:12.900 And I did a whole breakdown on that case, guys.

00:57:14.440 It's age-restricted, which is why it's suppressed to the shadow realm in YouTube.

00:57:17.920 But if you guys want to go ahead and still watch it, it's there, all right?

00:57:24.120 But, again, that's another perfect example of you know he did it.

00:57:27.300 We all know he did it.

00:57:28.440 However, the state could not prove it.

00:57:30.160 Hell, he went on to go do an interview like in 2006 or 2008, something like that, saying, if I did it.

00:57:35.820 And he goes into, like, a hypothetical where he talks about, oh, yeah, if I did it, blah, blah, blah.

00:57:40.880 And he says how he had another individual with him, which I also think it was a two-man job.

00:57:43.980 O.J. did not act alone.

00:57:44.980 Go watch that episode, and I go get my entire theory of how I think the murder actually went down and who assisted him, okay?

00:57:50.800 Time stamps are in there.

00:57:51.620 Go enjoy that one.

00:57:52.620 But, again, they didn't prove it.

00:57:54.620 Same exact situation in this Millie case.

00:57:58.280 They did not prove it, all right?

00:57:59.800 The prosecutor was by herself doing this goddamn case.

00:58:02.700 In the O.J. Simpson case, it was two prosecutors against, like, five really good defense attorneys, okay?

00:58:10.620 So that's number one issue I noticed is that that prosecutor, the girl that you guys saw with the black hair, she was by herself the whole time, okay?

00:58:18.440 She didn't have a second or third chair helping her out.

00:58:20.640 Or maybe she had an assistant, it looked like, but it doesn't look like she had another actual attorney that knew the case.

00:58:25.280 Number two, they spent way too much time on the blood and gang angle, okay?

00:58:31.340 Like, way too much time, dude.

00:58:33.240 Like, they spent, like, two weeks plus just on trying to establish that Millie was a gang member with the G-Shine bloods, talking about the gang culture, showing text messages.

00:58:47.000 You know, they brought in that detective that didn't show his face that worked undercover as a subject matter expert.

00:58:53.560 Like, they spent way too much time on that.

00:58:56.020 Now, why do I say that they spent too much time on it?

00:58:59.920 The reason why, well, let's talk first about why they brought that, they did this, right?

00:59:04.940 They did it because in order for them to get the death penalty in Florida, guys, they need to establish that the crime was committed in the furtherance of some type of gang activity.

00:59:13.280 So they needed that gang angle to push for the death penalty, okay?

00:59:17.720 And in Florida, the laws change.

00:59:19.280 You don't need a unanimous vote to get the death penalty anymore.

00:59:24.240 I think the law changed, the census changed.

00:59:25.840 It's about you need only eight people to agree after the person is convicted, and they end up getting the death penalty, right?

00:59:32.940 And that's why they were pushing so hard on this gang thing because they were pushing for that.

00:59:36.660 Now, I think they wasted way too much time doing it.

00:59:39.820 It took attention away from the actual real evidence in the case, and it bored the jury.

00:59:47.660 Let's just keep it 1,000.

00:59:48.780 Like, it bored the jury to a degree, and it extended the trial longer than it needed to.

00:59:53.300 At the end of the day, guys, the jury is just a peer of people.

00:59:57.440 A lot of them, some of them are college educated.

00:59:58.920 Some of them aren't.

00:59:59.760 They're regular people from different walks of life.

01:00:02.060 They don't, like, they have a finite amount of time that they can pay attention.

01:00:07.560 Just keeping it simple with you guys.

01:00:08.640 And we all know from watching, you know, this podcast and others, most people aren't that smart.

01:00:14.660 Just keep it 1,000.

01:00:15.400 Most people are kind of dumb.

01:00:17.320 Most people have the attention span of squirrels.

01:00:19.960 You understand?

01:00:21.120 So when you're going into a complex investigation, talking about gangs and all this other stuff, blah, blah, blah, right?

01:00:28.260 It's going to take away from the overall case.

01:00:30.540 So by the time they started bringing in the phone stuff, the other witnesses, the medical examiners, we're like two, three weeks into the goddamn trial.

01:00:39.300 You know what I mean?

01:00:39.880 So they spent way too much time on the gang stuff, in my opinion, right?

01:00:44.140 And that diluted the quality of all the other information.

01:00:48.240 Then, and the trial was long-winded.

01:00:52.160 Like, they could have did this trial in two weeks, I think, right?

01:00:55.500 But I think that the prosecution really wanted to, you know, make a case.

01:01:00.500 Like, look at all these exhibits, et cetera.

01:01:02.020 Sometimes less is more, guys.

01:01:03.740 Less exhibits is better.

01:01:05.480 It's more potent.

01:01:06.760 The jurors are able to remember.

01:01:08.080 It's able to stick in their head.

01:01:09.480 And the fact that they had so much stuff, right, might have hurt them a bit.

01:01:14.340 And I think we were spending so much time on the gang stuff because it took away from the validity of the phone evidence, the testimony from the police officers, the testimony from the medical examiners, et cetera.

01:01:24.280 So, and on top of that, the defense, right, what did they do?

01:01:29.160 They're sneaky, guys, right?

01:01:30.360 They're very, very sneaky.

01:01:31.460 They brought in one witness that said, yo, I was with Melly when the news was broken.

01:01:36.820 He was in the red Mitsubishi.

01:01:38.100 What does that do?

01:01:39.160 That creates reasonable doubt, guys.

01:01:42.180 That's what it does.

01:01:42.840 It creates reasonable doubt.

01:01:43.640 And, guys, start getting your questions in now.

01:01:47.300 And I'll answer them, and then we'll close this thing out.

01:01:49.620 Today's going to be a shorter FedReacts because we're just talking about it.

01:01:52.760 Because I've already covered the case extensively.

01:01:54.840 Right?

01:01:55.980 So we are kind of just summarizing things here.

01:01:58.080 But I want to make sure I get all the questions answered.

01:02:01.360 But, yeah, I think that's what – I think those were some big blunders is spending way too much time on the gang stuff, sensationalizing that part,

01:02:09.780 not focusing on the hardcore evidence that actually paints a very good picture, right, like they had done in their criminal complaint.

01:02:15.820 All that messed them up.

01:02:17.700 And with jurors, man, you just got to call a spade a spade.

01:02:20.840 I've done trials before.

01:02:22.460 A lot of jurors are stupid.

01:02:23.520 Let's just keep it 1,000.

01:02:24.420 A lot of them are stupid.

01:02:25.180 They don't have critical thinking skills.

01:02:26.420 And they have a finite amount of attention.

01:02:28.100 So you want to go ahead and make sure that you give them the best evidence in the beginning when they're still fresh.

01:02:33.900 Okay?

01:02:34.180 And you don't want the trial to be too long because they also get annoyed because they want to go home.

01:02:40.140 They don't want to sit there and deliberate.

01:02:41.800 All that.

01:02:43.340 So I – and then the other thing too also.

01:02:45.860 So I know a lot of you guys are saying, yo, well, is Melly going to get out on bond?

01:02:48.620 I'll tell you all this.

01:02:50.980 He definitely has a better shot of getting out on bond now.

01:02:55.080 A big part of putting – of giving – you know, because as you guys know, Melly has been in prison this whole time.

01:03:00.120 He's been in jail all this time.

01:03:01.340 The past five years, he's been in jail, right?

01:03:04.100 And a big reason for that is because the strength of evidence from this state, the violence, all this stuff, they were able to articulate, no, he needs to stay behind bars.

01:03:11.960 It's dangerous to society.

01:03:13.320 The ferociousness of the crime, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:03:15.760 Right?

01:03:16.040 And then the evidence has – the state has a strong case.

01:03:18.320 Right?

01:03:19.260 But since there's a mistrial, clearly what does that represent?

01:03:22.240 Well, it's not as strong as they thought because they couldn't prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

01:03:26.560 So I am willing to bet Melly's defense team is filing something right now to go ahead and get him out on bond.

01:03:35.220 Okay?

01:03:35.780 It's probably going to be like maybe with, you know, severe restrictions.

01:03:38.920 He can't leave his house, maybe house arrest, something like that.

01:03:41.040 But they're absolutely going to work to try to get something to get him out.

01:03:45.640 And I think also the prosecution, if they're smart, like Candace was asking, they're going to go ahead and try to prosecute Portland.

01:03:53.440 Now, here's the thing, though.

01:03:54.120 I don't know if they could prep for trial and do it with Portland in three months.

01:03:57.880 I don't think they can do it.

01:03:59.420 You know?

01:04:00.120 So that might be an issue.

01:04:03.280 The other thing, too, that I'm a little confused of is I don't know why the prosecution didn't bring Portland on to testify.

01:04:08.800 I don't know if he got coldly a fee at the last second or they didn't want him to testify because he's not credible.

01:04:14.360 As you guys remember, he is the one that gave that nonsensical story about the drive-by shooting.

01:04:19.040 So his credibility is already shot.

01:04:21.140 However, okay, this is very important.

01:04:23.700 A non-credible witness can be made credible when there's corroborating pieces of evidence to substantiate their story.

01:04:34.000 What do I mean by that?

01:04:36.680 If Portland took the stand and said, yes, Mellie shot him, I was in the front seat, okay, that would have definitely made Mellie guilty, even though Portland is not credible.

01:04:48.660 Why?

01:04:49.140 Because all the forensic evidence shows it.

01:04:51.900 The bullet in the back seat, the phone evidence, the blood on the back of Portland's shirt that shows that he couldn't have been the shooter, right?

01:04:57.580 So even though he's a liar in the eyes of the police, he can go ahead and, I guess, clear his credibility to a degree because there's a bunch of physical evidence, right, that would substantiate what he's saying.

01:05:11.600 And then, more than likely, he would say, they would ask him, right, if the prosecution put him on, why'd you lie to the police?

01:05:17.460 Well, I lied to protect Mellie, right?

01:05:19.280 Or I fell scared for my life.

01:05:20.740 Mellie would have hurt me, some other bullshit like that, right?

01:05:22.900 So he would have probably got a pass if he had testified against Mellie, even though he's not a credible witness, because the physical evidence against Mellie is so strong.

01:05:30.920 But, well, excuse me, the physical evidence against, the circumstantial evidence against Mellie is very strong.

01:05:36.680 It paints a picture when you put it together.

01:05:38.280 But you don't have like that one, one smoking gun, right, which is why they were able to go ahead and create that reasonable doubt, especially with that witness.

01:05:48.060 Even though we know that witness is lying, because when the prosecution put him on and cross-examined him, he didn't have any answers for her, right?

01:05:55.820 But what that one witness did, though, was create the reasonable doubt that Mellie wasn't in that Jeep.

01:06:05.620 Let's see here.

01:06:07.180 Okay.

01:06:07.500 Frelitka goes, the state just allowed him to drain his pockets.

01:06:16.620 No way he has the money for two trials.

01:06:18.440 They'll get the conviction a second time around.

01:06:20.940 Yeah, we'll see.

01:06:22.040 I mean, it's going to give the prosecution the chance.

01:06:24.340 It's going to benefit.

01:06:25.960 It's not a win for anybody, really.

01:06:28.900 For the prosecution, it's an L because you wasted all this time and resources to do it, right?

01:06:34.180 So now you've got to prep again and do it again.

01:06:35.940 So that's a pain in the ass.

01:06:36.960 It's an L for the state, right, because of time.

01:06:39.360 And then from the defense standpoint, it's not an L or a W.

01:06:44.160 It just delays the situation, right?

01:06:46.820 And it gives you a little bit more time.

01:06:48.980 It gives you the ability to kind of sharpen your craft and know what the prosecution is going to use, right, or how they're going to argue things.

01:06:57.840 The prosecutor in this case, I think her name is Christine Hadley or something like that.

01:07:03.020 She's not the best prosecutor.

01:07:05.040 She wasn't really animated.

01:07:06.720 She was very bland in presenting her case.

01:07:10.680 A lot of the times, man, being an animated attorney helps.

01:07:13.300 I hate to say it, but like being boring and monotone and, yeah, well, as a matter of fact, this is what happened and the evidence will show, blah, blah, blah.

01:07:21.520 No, you want to be charismatic and artistic in the way that you deliver your arguments a lot of times because you want to be memorable to the journey, to the journey, to the jury.

01:07:35.720 Okay?

01:07:35.920 Sorry, guys.

01:07:36.440 I haven't slept, man.

01:07:37.120 We were working a lot in Columbia.

01:07:39.080 I apologize for my voice and I apologize for being a bit disconjointed here, but I am really tired.

01:07:45.700 Yeah.

01:07:46.140 I slept like two or three hours.

01:07:47.380 Michael Kanonis goes, if jurors were smart, they would be smart enough to not be on jury duty.

01:07:53.600 LOL.

01:07:54.440 JK Myron, are people ever not allowed in jury pools?

01:07:56.940 Yeah, actually, I got summoned for jury duty, man.

01:07:59.980 I'm going to tell them I used to work in law enforcement.

01:08:01.800 They typically don't want that.

01:08:03.780 So it depends.

01:08:05.420 Sometimes they'll take you out of a jury pool depending on your profession or your background or if you're biased towards the type of case that they have.

01:08:11.760 JTK, question.

01:08:12.840 How did you prosecute this differently in the retrial and do they need to pick new jurors as well?

01:08:17.280 Yeah, they're going to have to do everything again.

01:08:18.700 They're going to have to get new jurors.

01:08:20.120 Everything is going to be redone from the beginning, guys.

01:08:23.240 So that sucks.

01:08:24.460 And then how I prosecuted differently, I would not focus so much on the gang stuff, not push so hard for the death penalty, focus on the good evidence that you have.

01:08:31.820 Don't make it a fucking clown show with bringing on detectives that can't show their face like it takes away from all the other evidence that they had that was really good in this investigation.

01:08:41.100 And yeah, I'll say the prosecution dropped the ball.

01:08:44.160 They didn't prove even though the evidence they have is strong and we all know he did it.

01:08:48.620 They couldn't prove it during the discourse of a trial through litigation.

01:08:53.720 OK, say that again for y'all, because that's very important.

01:08:57.200 Even though, you know, anyone with common sense would look at the evidence and be like, yeah, Mellie's guilty.

01:09:02.440 The prosecution did not do a good job of proving that he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt through the course of litigation in a trial setting.

01:09:11.620 Very different things.

01:09:13.180 Knowing someone is guilty versus proving it with litigation in a trial.

01:09:16.980 Easier said than done, guys.

01:09:18.640 Right.

01:09:18.840 And again, the prosecutor, she needed help.

01:09:21.600 She should have had at least another one or two prosecutors with her to do this.

01:09:24.800 I'm shocked that she didn't have a second chair.

01:09:26.980 I am shocked.

01:09:30.880 If you're Mellie's attorney and you had to go to trial, how do you defend him?

01:09:34.940 They did a good job of defending him, to be honest with you.

01:09:37.360 They just attacked the credibility of the investigation, saying that they were biased, saying that they didn't hone in on other suspects.

01:09:42.620 They brought in their own witness, which was interesting, even though that witness is not that credible.

01:09:48.800 But, hey, it doesn't matter because all they need to do is create reasonable doubt.

01:09:52.160 So they attacked some of the subject matter experts.

01:09:55.660 They made a really good point, by the way, about how some of the subject matter experts, their testimony was conflicting.

01:10:02.460 Right.

01:10:02.940 So the defense attorney made a good argument about that, about how one of the defendants was shot first, which conflicts with another expert witness.

01:10:13.940 So I think one of the cops, one of the sergeants gave some testimony that conflicted with the medical examiner.

01:10:18.980 So they were saying, yo, since this cop gave this evidence that doesn't conflict with the medical examiner, everything that he says gots to be thrown out.

01:10:25.120 So that that actually hurt quite a bit because that cop that they brought in, the sergeant, was someone that was important to the investigation.

01:10:32.960 L Spongebob goes, if you're Mellie's.

01:10:34.740 Oh, sorry.

01:10:36.580 King Life.

01:10:37.400 What if the red Mitsubishi, those guys told Mellie, the guys told Mellie, get in the red car.

01:10:42.100 And then one of the group, one of the group got in the back.

01:10:45.120 The guys, the red Mitsubishi need their phones investigated.

01:10:47.520 That's a potential as well.

01:10:48.980 If they, if they knew what was up and they followed him the whole time, that could also be, oh, no, no, no.

01:10:53.520 Actually, you know what?

01:10:54.160 No, it's not because they did a phone.

01:10:58.140 They did a phone analysis of one of the people that they interviewed and that showed that they went completely different, different directions.

01:11:05.900 So one of the people, because one of the guys lied and said that Mellie got in a car with him.

01:11:09.520 And that, that, that did not, um, that didn't line up with the phone evidence, but no, good, good question.

01:11:15.620 King Life.

01:11:16.120 They couldn't wiretap a space time.

01:11:17.880 No wiretap guys are real time.

01:11:19.700 So, um, when you're wiretapping something, you're getting that information real time through something called a title three intercept.

01:11:26.940 And, um, at the time you, you, you can't, you need an active investigation where you know that they're doing criminal activity, maybe a drug investigation, a gang investigation, whatever you're actively investigating them.

01:11:39.660 You need to be developed the probable cause while investigating them to be able to get the probable cause, to get the affidavit, to file it, to get the title three in the first place.

01:11:47.560 So in this case, this is what I call a reactionary case, a murder cases, 99% of the time are reactionary cases, right?

01:11:53.400 You're not going to, cause if you know that a murder is about to happen, you're supposed to stop it before it happens.

01:11:57.100 You're not, even if you hear on a wiretap, you hear, oh, we're going to go whack this fucking guy, right?

01:12:01.020 On some Italian shit.

01:12:02.840 They're going to go ahead and notify that person that, yo, uh, there's a, there's a hit on your life, right?

01:12:07.320 John Gotti, they were going to kill him.

01:12:09.400 They heard it on wiretaps.

01:12:10.480 What did the FBI do?

01:12:11.300 They went and warned him, Hey, they're trying to kill you.

01:12:13.360 And that the FBI actually saved John Gotti from being murdered.

01:12:16.200 So even if they hear on a wiretap, they have to stop it.

01:12:18.580 But murder investigations are reactionary.

01:12:20.500 So there's no way that they could have wiretap the FaceTime call because the murder had already happened at that point.

01:12:26.300 Okay.

01:12:26.880 Um, and, or, or if you mean like doing a search warrant and trying to get that FaceTime call, you're not going to get that.

01:12:31.640 You're not going to get that.

01:12:33.520 Um, do you think Mellie had to tell his lawyers what actually happened?

01:12:36.660 So they know how to defend him.

01:12:38.000 Uh, yeah, more than likely a lot of, a lot of times defense attorneys will sit there with their client and they'll be like, all right, man, tell me what the hell happened for real.

01:12:45.100 And, you know, a lot of times they'll be like, yeah, this is what really went down, et cetera.

01:12:48.080 And then that will allow the defense to kind of formulate, um, a defense strategy.

01:12:53.040 So that does happen.

01:12:54.060 And that's why, um, lawyer and client, uh, information is considered privileged, right?

01:13:01.680 Because, uh, you can say whatever to your lawyer and it's privileged and he can't, he can't, you know, do anything like he can't disclose that to other people.

01:13:09.160 Right.

01:13:09.600 And it can't be used against you either.

01:13:11.540 Uh, Richie Long Dung, former president Trump in response to being indicted has spoke on the presidential records act.

01:13:16.420 Is that real?

01:13:17.460 Uh, yeah, it definitely is.

01:13:19.420 But, um, the reason why, and you need guys go watch the Trump, um, breakdown that I did.

01:13:26.440 The reason why, um, Trump is in trouble isn't because he declassified the stuff.

01:13:32.400 It doesn't matter for some of those documents is defense information, DFI.

01:13:36.500 So it doesn't matter if it's classified or not.

01:13:38.660 Defense information is always going to be, it's a no, no.

01:13:42.540 That's where the mess up is.

01:13:43.820 So, I mean, I mean, if he's going to use that as a defense, I mean, cool, but I don't think it's going to stand up.

01:13:51.280 I, I genuinely there, I told you already what I think is going to have to happen for, uh, Trump to beat that charge.

01:13:57.600 He's going to have to become president, pardon himself, or, uh, hopefully DeSantis or somebody else becomes president, pardon him.

01:14:03.100 But if he tries to go to trial, he's going to lose.

01:14:05.860 He's going to lose.

01:14:06.600 I mean, it's so bad.

01:14:07.540 Matter of fact, cause look, um, y'all know TK is asking about privilege information, right?

01:14:12.620 Y'all know how bad the Trump case is.

01:14:14.740 They have former Trump attorneys that are cooperating with the FBI in this situation.

01:14:19.140 That's how you know it's bad.

01:14:20.140 When you got former attorneys cooperating, that's not a good look because, and I know this from reading the, uh, the indictment, right?

01:14:26.960 That the FBI has Trump's lawyer's notes.

01:14:30.320 The only way that they would have a lawyer's notes is that lawyer is cooperating.

01:14:35.360 And that means that that lawyer was implicated in criminal activity in the situation, which is what made it, uh, no longer privileged.

01:14:43.280 So yeah, that case is bad, man.

01:14:45.620 The state case in New York, uh, falsified business records.

01:14:48.440 Ah, who cares?

01:14:49.580 But the, the, um, the federal one that that's that.

01:14:52.740 Yeah.

01:14:53.440 No, I'm telling you, man, the department of justice is not going to lose that.

01:14:56.440 They didn't.

01:14:56.960 And the feds don't indict unless they're going to win Tonya, man.

01:15:00.120 And they got him on a charge that he can't defense information.

01:15:03.600 You can't beat that.

01:15:05.380 Um, but I do think that they're, you know, unjustly going after him that, that pisses me off.

01:15:09.440 Cause as you guys know, I do like Trump, but yeah, they hit, they're hitting him with charges that he can't beat.

01:15:15.820 Unfortunately, I just got to be objective about it.

01:15:18.700 Um, Aiden, are you ever going to cover Aaron Hernandez?

01:15:21.280 Yes, I will cover, um, Aaron Hernandez for sure.

01:15:24.320 Um, it's just a matter of time.

01:15:26.540 I just got to, um, that was going to be extensive.

01:15:28.480 So I'm not going to lie to you guys, that case is very big and I got to find out which

01:15:31.480 documentary I'm going to use for you guys on that one, because, uh, Netflix will probably

01:15:34.660 hit me with a copyright.

01:15:35.560 So, uh, and, and I did the Menendez brothers guys because, but YouTube hit me with some BS

01:15:40.020 man.

01:15:40.300 So I couldn't drop it, but I did film and everything for you guys.

01:15:43.540 So I'm, I'm kind of pissed off.

01:15:45.440 Um, but you know, it is what it is.

01:15:48.440 Uh, any other questions guys, by the way, and let me see here.

01:15:51.180 What do we got here?

01:15:52.280 Uh, we got 3,700 y'all in here, man.

01:15:55.000 We only got 1.1 K likes, man.

01:15:56.700 Come on, man.

01:15:57.540 We should be at 3,000 likes easy, man.

01:16:00.460 3,000 likes easy guys.

01:16:04.240 Oh, hold on.

01:16:07.740 Yeah.

01:16:08.100 We should be at 3,000 likes easy guys.

01:16:10.080 Stop being fucking cheapskates with your likes.

01:16:13.920 Uh, Cloudstripe goes, if I get kicked out of 109 schools, am I the problem?

01:16:17.860 Oh, man.

01:16:25.100 Yeah.

01:16:25.460 We're on YouTube, bro.

01:16:26.740 We're on YouTube.

01:16:27.440 We're at our rumble.

01:16:28.580 All right.

01:16:29.040 We can't talk about them boys here.

01:16:31.840 All right.

01:16:33.240 Uh, could you cover the Trayvon Martin case?

01:16:35.700 Um, yeah, I will.

01:16:37.260 I will.

01:16:37.740 And that's, uh, for some of you guys that are wondering, some of you young, young bloods

01:16:40.940 out there, that's the Zimmerman and Trayvon case.

01:16:43.380 Um, Zimmerman famously, uh, ended up beating that case on the standard ground laws in Florida,

01:16:48.880 um, under self-defense and, you know, obviously had everyone up in arms going crazy.

01:16:53.680 Um, that was actually one of the, the, uh, first cases that brought national attention

01:16:59.280 to, uh, you know, to violence and minorities and everything else like that.

01:17:05.880 I mean, it was really Rodney King, but that was a big one.

01:17:08.120 I remember I was in college, uh, who was slayed five bucks.

01:17:10.920 I salute you for liking Trump and not being delusional.

01:17:12.780 He really screwed himself.

01:17:14.000 Yeah.

01:17:14.500 Yeah.

01:17:14.900 I mean, I'm, I'm one of the few guys that's like, uh, I mean, a somewhat political commentator

01:17:19.780 that likes Trump that like is letting y'all know.

01:17:22.700 Yeah.

01:17:23.120 See the, should I go on this fucking rant right now?

01:17:30.540 All right.

01:17:31.140 I'm just kidding.

01:17:31.700 Whatever.

01:17:34.040 The difference between me and a lot of these people, right.

01:17:36.980 That follow and love Trump is that none of them have prosecuted a federal case with classified

01:17:43.720 information and or national defense information.

01:17:47.400 Like I literally was involved in a case where we arrested this Iranian guy.

01:17:52.460 I showed y'all this, uh, before in that Trump video that was, he was just taking, um, fighter

01:17:58.940 chest schematics, not even classified stuff.

01:18:00.920 And, and they put him in prison for that.

01:18:03.180 So Trump has classified stuff that he didn't classify on top of national defense information.

01:18:08.960 And they have transcripts and recordings of him admitting that he knew he should have

01:18:13.720 declassified some of the stuff.

01:18:14.900 He didn't declassify the stuff.

01:18:16.480 He's not president anymore.

01:18:17.360 And he can't declassify the stuff anymore.

01:18:18.760 So every defense that Trump has, right.

01:18:23.360 They already kind of have, uh, uh, they have a solution for it in the indictment.

01:18:28.180 And here, remember guys, the indictment isn't all the evidence.

01:18:32.200 That's just some of the stuff that they're disclosing.

01:18:34.260 They have more evidence.

01:18:35.540 They probably have more witnesses, more informants, more people willing to testify.

01:18:39.160 Then it's in the indictment.

01:18:40.980 That's just what they made public.

01:18:42.740 When they go to trial, everything is going to come out.

01:18:45.100 Okay.

01:18:45.540 And the attorney general would not choose, right.

01:18:50.220 Merrick Garland, by the way.

01:18:52.480 That's all I got to say on that one.

01:18:54.400 Okay.

01:18:55.820 The attorney general would not choose to bring charges against a former president of the United States

01:19:01.140 unless they knew, they absolutely knew they had a debt to rights and they could prove him guilty.

01:19:07.820 Trust me.

01:19:08.380 They would not, this thing was viewed by everyone at the justice department at the highest level.

01:19:13.220 They would have never brought these charges against Trump and actually indicted him federally

01:19:17.480 had they not known that they would get them debt to rights on this thing.

01:19:20.560 And in this situation, bro, they got them defensive, the national defense information.

01:19:25.300 There's no games with that.

01:19:26.720 You can't have it period.

01:19:27.940 You just can't have it.

01:19:29.140 All right.

01:19:29.440 And I know people were saying, well, Biden had it too.

01:19:31.860 And, uh, you know, Obama, et cetera.

01:19:34.740 The reason why the feds are going to be able to circumvent that and the criticism for that

01:19:39.060 is because every other president they've asked to give it back typically gives it back.

01:19:44.260 And right.

01:19:45.340 The stuff that Trump did give back, they didn't prosecute him on that.

01:19:50.820 They only prosecuted him on the stuff that they found at Mar-a-Lago.

01:19:53.800 Okay.

01:19:55.380 They take, let, let that sink in.

01:19:57.120 So the stuff that he gave back, right.

01:19:59.660 They're not prosecuting him on that.

01:20:01.740 They're prosecuting him because he said, I gave y'all everything back.

01:20:05.860 They made him sign something.

01:20:07.220 Then they got a search warrant because they figured out that they didn't have everything back.

01:20:11.500 And when they went to Mar-a-Lago and they found the documents, they're like, all right,

01:20:13.780 we're prosecuting this guy now.

01:20:14.800 That's it.

01:20:15.200 We're done.

01:20:15.800 You know what I mean?

01:20:16.300 Like, yo.

01:20:20.280 So yeah.

01:20:21.360 One of the FBI has got to do a search warrant and they find the classified documents after

01:20:26.440 you told them that you gave them everything right under, under penalty of perjury, by the

01:20:30.680 way, his lawyer signed a document saying they gave everything, which is why they're cooperating

01:20:33.940 with the FBI right now, because the FBI got them by the balls because they've said, oh yeah,

01:20:36.860 we gave y'all everything.

01:20:37.920 And then they did the search warrant.

01:20:39.020 No, y'all didn't.

01:20:39.960 Now they're cooperating, which is why you see lawyer notes in their fricking indictment.

01:20:43.780 Okay.

01:20:46.240 There's, there's, yeah, there's no, yeah.

01:20:49.080 Trump put himself in a bad place, man.

01:20:50.620 He really did with this situation.

01:20:52.140 The best thing you could do is, um, delay, delay, delay this trial, delay this, you know,

01:20:58.440 keep filing hearing, you know, keep filing frivolous hearings, whatever it may be, get

01:21:03.940 to the finish line, become president of the United States, win the election and then pardon

01:21:07.140 yourself.

01:21:07.980 Right.

01:21:08.340 That's the only thing I could think of for him to get around this.

01:21:13.000 Uh, let's see here.

01:21:17.400 This is from stay cool and mean business.

01:21:19.400 W stream.

01:21:19.940 Thank you so much.

01:21:20.620 Short of stream, but we got it done.

01:21:22.580 And then where do you think mentally prosecution can improve next?

01:21:25.760 Uh, like I said before, avoid the, the, the gang stuff.

01:21:29.960 Don't push so hard for the death penalty.

01:21:31.880 Focus on the good phone evidence that you have.

01:21:34.140 Focus on the circumstantial evidence, paint that picture more clearly doing a more concise

01:21:38.660 manner.

01:21:39.620 Get that out there first in front of the jury.

01:21:41.420 So they're, you know, nice and fresh and they could actually take in the information.

01:21:45.000 And that's what I would say.

01:21:46.580 They, they, they, they, they, they bit off a bit more than they can chew because they're

01:21:49.400 trying to push for the death penalty.

01:21:50.740 And when you push for the death penalty, and I think that's another thing too, as well.

01:21:54.040 I'm glad you asked this because I just thought about this.

01:21:56.340 The fact that they're pushing for the death penalty definitely made the jurors second guess

01:22:00.880 finding him guilty because they knew that the consequences were so severe and they tell

01:22:05.840 them, Hey, don't worry about the consequences.

01:22:07.800 Just do you think that they prove, prove them guilty behind a reasonable doubt?

01:22:10.760 They say that they give that in the jury instruction, but at the end of the day, humans are

01:22:14.240 humans.

01:22:14.660 They're going to go ahead and, you know, feel some type of way.

01:22:17.440 And a lot of people would feel guilty if, you know, they didn't feel a hundred percent

01:22:22.500 and they convicted someone and they went to death.

01:22:24.800 Sorry.

01:22:25.180 They were put to death.

01:22:26.060 So, and he's a young guy, right?

01:22:27.940 And he's famous.

01:22:29.060 So to them, they're looking at it.

01:22:30.400 Like, I don't want to be responsible for this man's death.

01:22:32.140 I'm just going to say not guilty.

01:22:33.240 Cause I don't feel a hundred percent convinced, but if they had, maybe he's going to get life

01:22:36.920 in prison or 20 to 50 years, whatever it may be, then it might be easier for them

01:22:40.560 to say, okay, yeah, he's guilty.

01:22:41.920 You got to look at it from a human perspective.

01:22:44.240 You know?

01:22:45.500 So, um, focus on the facts.

01:22:48.860 Don't push for the death penalty.

01:22:50.060 Like you guys have been doing.

01:22:51.260 I think that was, that hurt them because they bit off a bit more than they can chew and they

01:22:55.200 wasted two weeks easy just on trying to establish that he's a blood gang member.

01:22:59.360 Right.

01:22:59.740 Which has absolutely nothing to do with the actual murder in itself.

01:23:03.520 Um, and I think there'll be in a much better position.

01:23:06.500 So, uh, so yeah, let's see here.

01:23:10.040 Anything else before I close this thing out?

01:23:11.540 Um.

01:23:13.540 Um, where do you think, oh, then we got here, Michael Kenonis with a channel getting nuked

01:23:20.380 if you cover Hunter, uh, Hunter Biden.

01:23:23.440 Um, I don't think so.

01:23:24.800 I could probably cover Hunter Biden.

01:23:26.140 Um, yeah.

01:23:28.080 I'll ask Angie if that's been on the list a lot.

01:23:31.220 Um, and go from there.

01:23:32.380 Uh, cause I, that's the first I've heard you guys ask for a Hunter.

01:23:35.640 I didn't think you guys cared about Hunter like that.

01:23:37.440 So I didn't really push for it.

01:23:39.220 Uh, let's see here.

01:23:42.060 Anything else?

01:23:43.000 All right.

01:23:44.020 I think that's pretty much it, man.

01:23:45.200 Give me one thing to chat.

01:23:46.000 If this makes some more sense for you guys, you guys, uh, you know, understand this case

01:23:50.800 better and what a mistrial is now.

01:23:52.120 And what more than likely is going to happen is a new trial is going to happen in three

01:23:55.020 months.

01:23:55.680 I don't see the prosecution letting this go and I don't see them, uh, letting go of the

01:24:00.280 charges.

01:24:01.060 Uh, but I do think that they need to readjust and not focus so much on the gang stuff.

01:24:04.320 I think that really messed them up.

01:24:05.560 They wasted weeks doing that shit and the jury only has so much attention that they can

01:24:10.380 give.

01:24:11.300 So, um, and y'all got a little bit of Trump information as well.

01:24:16.280 Broke down a Trump case for y'all a little bit as well, but yeah, as a Trump supporter,

01:24:20.420 man, I'm, you know, I got to keep it objective with y'all.

01:24:23.760 Clan Sox case.

01:24:25.240 Uh, yeah, I could in the future.

01:24:27.200 I don't think anyone requested that one, but yeah, we got a whole list of stuff that

01:24:30.580 we still got to cover for you guys.

01:24:32.220 So, uh, so yeah, shout out to Mo.

01:24:37.320 He just messaged me.

01:24:38.440 He's here on, he's, he's watching, he's watching the show, uh, on the side lurking.

01:24:42.780 Um, cool.

01:24:44.080 All right, guys, I am going to go ahead and try to get some sleep.

01:24:46.680 I'm dying right now.

01:24:47.460 You guys can hear it in my voice.

01:24:48.640 Uh, we're going to give you guys a money Monday tomorrow with, uh, George Gammon.

01:24:51.940 We recorded it.

01:24:52.920 Um, yesterday we talked about a lot of cool stuff with the, with the financial markets, the

01:24:56.580 central banks, what they're trying to do.

01:24:58.020 We talked about, you know, some Illuminati stuff, right?

01:25:03.340 Conspiracy theories, the money and stuff like that.

01:25:06.300 So I think you guys are going to enjoy that for sure.

01:25:08.840 Um, and, uh, we'll have after hours.

01:25:11.040 I think we're going to have some special guests tomorrow.

01:25:12.420 I'm not going to announce who, uh, but I think we're going to have some special guests tomorrow

01:25:15.800 on after hours.

01:25:16.460 Um, but yeah, I'll catch you guys on the next episode on a fed reacts.

01:25:22.360 Love you guys.

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01:25:26.400 Like the video on your way out.

01:25:27.800 Don't forget to subscribe to the channel and I'll catch you guys on the next one.

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The Debrief With MyronGainesX - July 24, 2023

Fed Explains YNW Melly Mistrial. Will He Be Released？

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