FLORIDA- An appeals court has now given prosecutors the opportunity to seek the death penalty for rapper YNW Melly.
The rapper’s trial was set to take place in July, but Broward Circuit Judge Andrew Siegel sided with the defense by ruling that prosecutors couldn’t seek the death penalty due to them failing to properly inform the court of that intention.
In the ruling this week, the Fourth District Court of Appeal found that prosecutors had already notified the court about the intention to seek the death penalty and aren’t required to repeat the notification just because a new indictment had been given to the defendant.
The rapper, whose real name is Jamell Demons, 23, was indicted in 2019 and charged with the murders of his two best friends and fellow YNW rappers, Anthony Williams, a.k.a. YNW Sakchaser, and Christopher Thomas, known as YNW Juvy.
Melly is accused of shooting and killing both men as they were all in a car in Miramar, Florida. Cortlen Henry, another YNW member, who goes by the name of YNW Bortlen, was allegedly the driver, and left their bodies at a local hospital.
According to Cortlen, there was a drive-by shooting and Melly wasn’t in the vehicle, as he was recording at a near-by studio.
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