YNW Melly‘s double murder trial has taken yet another interesting turn as it’s now been announced that it’s ended in a mistrial.
The mistrial was declared as of 2:12 p.m. ET on Saturday (July 22), and Law & Crime was on the scene to announce Judge John Murphy’s shocking decision.
According to the outlet, the jury deliberated until 5:00 p.m. ET on Friday (July 21) before breaking for the evening. They resumed deliberations on Saturday (July 22) at 8:52 a.m. ET.
Despite this constant deliberation, however, the jury could not reach a majority verdict.
There was, however, some indication that things would go this way prior to the mistrial declaration.
On Friday (July 21), the jury sent a note to Judge John Murphy suggesting that they may be deadlocked, since everyone on the jury seemed to have picked a side and cannot be swayed in their decision.
“What if we can’t come to a decision? Everyone is stuck on which side they’ve chosen,” read the note, which Murphy read aloud in the courtroom.
A deadlocked jury is one that cannot reach a verdict by the required voting margin despite their best efforts.
According to the Cornell University School of Law, judges will make every effort to avoid a deadlocked jury, often going so far as to demand what’s known as a “dynamite charge” to force the jury to come to a verdict. There is no limit to how long a jury can deliberate for in any state of the union, but a mistrial will be declared at some point if all efforts to reach a decision are in vain.
It is important to note, however, that YNW Melly may be retried now that the mistrial has occurred.
According to the Fully Informed Jury Association, the defendant (in this case, YNW Melly) is neither acquitted nor convicted. Rather, in the eyes of the law, the trial “never happened.” Therefore, Fifth Amendment protections — which include the double jeopardy clause that prevents defendants from being retried for the same crime — do not apply.
“If a mistrial occurs due to a hung jury, the prosecutor may decide to retry the case. A judge may decide to disallow this in some cases, but the prosecutor is usually allowed to proceed,” reports the Fully Informed Jury Association.
While YNW Melly may go free as a result of this mistrial, it is not clear whether his attorney has made this type of a motion to the court, as of yet.
This is a developing story. Stay tuned to HipHopDX for more updates.
If he walks he’ll be heralded for street cred even though he’s obviously a disloyal little punk.
I’ve haven’t seen a more guilty negroe since O.J.
And your daddy
Lol bitch you angry , ya little clout fish
Nope just you. Gayfish
He has a bird’s nest on his head
His brain is the size of a bird and his head is full of bird shit too.
They bout to let another butt pirate free from jail. What’s next, YoungButtPlugga getting free. Guess This Year Really Is The Year of The H0M03$
What a fucking loss for culture and society. I hope someone knocks his head off before a retrial. How about this, get a few less black and liberals on the jury. Give him the gallows.
Dirty fuck. Hopefully karma catch up with this scruff. And his dirty arse mother.
How are u even gunna say shit like that? Do you know for sure he did it? Were u there punk? Any why talk shit about his mother? It’s scum like u that give Americans a bad name!
The streets will be itching for him to get out. They will be the judge and jury and give him the death penalty unfortunately
I have to disagree with you. Unfortunately I think people will see him as beating the system and will increase his “street cred”. His digital streams have already increased and tons of rappers will want to do a song with him if he gets off.
these jurors have to be some of the dumbest people on earth. the ballistics say the bullets came from the back seat. how in hell does that not mean anything to these morons.
Their job is to determine if he is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. There was plenty of things that didn’t add up. There js no clear evidence pointing to melly . Yes he was in that seat at some stage but maybe not all the time. No gun . No Witnesses etc . U just want him to be guilty whether u admit it or not
This is really sad. I think you want him to be innocent. Your doubt is in which seat he was in? So 3 out of 4 did not move. Where did melly go? Oh he went back to house with others. But used his phone and drop pinned location and wasn’t there to do it? People are so blind to the facts. The doubt was cast on police department not handling case right. Prosecution failed to show delay was due to misleading reports from witness (driver). The mislead the investigation from. Beginning time vs arrival to hospital matters. Shows they was in zero hurry to get them any help. Then lied to police about location. All points to the defense being involved to at least some degree.
Only thing I say we losing as a race and the other side sitting back laughing at us doing there job🙏
Yes let him free he’s black. We need a statue of him too. And he needs to be given key to the city, a street named after him, a YNW Smelly appreciation day, an induction to the rock n roll hall of fame, his own star in Hollywood. Because he’s black.