The new court document — issued by Gunna’s attorneys Steven Sadow, Kristen Novay, Donald Samuel, and John Garland — comes after the judge denied his release at a court hearing last Thursday.at the time. “Gunna is innocent of the charge against him and should not be in jail pending trial.”
“The prosecution has produced no evidence that supports the denial of bond,” Sadow added. “Keeping him detained is a miscarriage of justice.” Kitchens’ lawyers originally claimed that “the ‘ongoing investigation’ has failed to verify a single instance in which one single person has actually made an accusation that Kitchens has threatened anybody .”that “the DA has pruned the indictment in the superseding indictment to remove virtually any reference to Kitchens’ involvement in any violence-related offense.”
The late September filing also stated that Kitchens “has been dropped from overt act 75” of the YSL indictment, which refers to a May 2018 traffic stop in which he and Young Thug were stopped for speeding. Police also stopped the vehicle behind the two, which contained four of their alleged associates armed with numerous weapons, including an AK-47.
Kitchens was arrested in May and charged with a single count of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO Act. Prosecutors allege that Young Thug’s Young Stoner Life record label is also a gang called Young Slime Life, which Thug and Gunna have been leading. from criminal justice reform advocates due to the use of YSL artists’ lyrics as evidence.This story was updated on Oct. 17 to include the new filing — a fourth motion for reasonable bond — made Monday.