YNW Melly finally has a new trial date following several delays in bringing his double murder case to court.
According to NBC Miami, the retrial is scheduled to begin on September 10, 2025, while a pretrial meeting for Melly’s separate witness tampering case will be held on December 5.
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The 25-year-old rapper (real name Jamell Demons) stands accused of murdering two childhood friends, Chris “YNW Juvy” Thomas and Anthony “YNW Sakchaser” Williams, in 2018 and making it look like a drive-by shooting.
While the judge made it clear the trial would begin on this date, Melly’s side appears less certain.
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His attorney Raven Liberty said in a statement: “At this juncture, it is merely a date. We await a ruling from the Fourth DCA [District Court of Appeal] on the suppression motions keeping out the text messages. Once the ruling comes back, Mr. Demons can demand a speedy trial.”
Melly’s mother also commented: “We are gonna trust God on everything like we’ve been doing. We’re gonna see where it goes. It’s all we can do.”
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YNW Melly’s retrial will have been delayed by almost a year by the time it gets underway after the rapper was hit with the witness tampering charge, stemming from allegations he conspired to stop a witness from testifying in court.
The Florida native has been held in jail since his arrest in 2019 and will have spent over six years behind bars by the time the case reaches court again.
A mistrial was declared in the initial trial after the jury could not come to a unanimous verdict regarding the rapper, who has denied the double homicide.
His attorneys recently moved to try and exclude phone calls between his fellow defendant YNW Bortlen and his girlfriend Juneviah Molina from being used as evidence in the trial.
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They claim that conversations between the two parties were irrelevant to the double murder trial at hand and “lack an evidentiary basis” to be used against their client.
Melly also recently moved jails for the first time in five years as he was transferred to Paul Rein Detention Center, a maximum security facility in Florida.
If convicted, he could face the death penalty.
