Yak Gotti is hiring new attorneys to spring him from the Fulton County Jail even after his acquittal on a high-profile homicide cost in December 2024.
The Atlanta rapper stays locked up over allegations of possessing contraband whereas incarcerated.
The 31-year-old artist was initially swept up in a sprawling Could 2022 indictment alongside rap heavyweight Younger Thug and 25 others underneath Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
The prosecution accused the group of taking part in gang-related legal exercise, however after a prolonged trial riddled with disruptions—together with judicial recusals and arrests of a lawyer and juror—Yak Gotti was cleared of essentially the most critical fees, together with racketeering and a 2015 homicide.
Regardless of his courtroom victory, freedom stays out of attain.
Yak Gotti has spent greater than two years in an Atlanta jail, and his incarceration took a violent flip when he was stabbed on December 1, 2024—a harrowing incident that required medical consideration.
His authorized staff, Bruce Harvey and Nicole Westmoreland, who took up his case in January 2025, filed an emergency bond movement, pointing to harmful jail situations as grounds for launch, in accordance with Fox Information 5.
The dire scenario on the Fulton County Jail was put underneath a microscope after Yak Gotti’s co-defendant Shannon Stillwell filed a class-action lawsuit in opposition to Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat and Chief Jailer John Jackson over the horrible, inhumane situations within the advanced.
The Atlanta rapper’s push for bond, nonetheless, has been stalled. A choose in December declined to rule on the movement, citing an impressive warrant tied to the contraband allegations.
The case has been deferred to February 2025, additional delaying any risk of launch.
