The jury is finally back to hear Georgia’s case against alleged crime boss Jeffrey Williams. Before we get into the meat of the case, there was a threshold issue of if the jurors would be able to unring the bell that was Kenneth Copeland aka Lil Woody’s prior testimony.
The jury has been brought in.
They will be asked if they are able to disregard parts of Woody's testimony. If any of them are unable to do so, they will be excused from the case.
There are 16 jurors, so if 5 jurors say they are unable to – we may have some problems. pic.twitter.com/2wy4205qOI
— THUGGERDAILY ひ (@ThuggerDaily) August 12, 2024

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Bracketing the likelihood of anyone actually being able to mentally ignore all of Woody’s prior bombshells, none of the jury members opted out & the trial continued. Woody took the stand and all hell proceeded to break loose.
Despite being the prosecution’s star witness, I doubt even Brian Steel could have picked someone to do a better job of smearing their credibility than what Woody did today. His testimony is like a highlight reel of the shit you never want a witness you’re relying on to say in front of the court and thousands of nosy Twitter onlookers in real time. You’ve got to see and hear this mess for yourself:
The state keeps asking this stupid question
"Why would you lie instead of tell the truth if you didn't want to go to jail?"
I don't think I have to elaborate how stupid that question is pic.twitter.com/lPqpLmvg42
— THUGGERDAILY ひ (@ThuggerDaily) August 12, 2024

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This just in! People may be willing to lie if it means avoiding jail time! That’s almost as surprising as discovering that some people are willing to be dishonest if it means they get to make a lot of money!
Woody went on to explain why he put the blame on Young Thug — it seems like he was just telling the police what they wanted to hear:
"It may seem like I'm trryna help Thug out. I'm not tryna help him out. I don't care nothing about him, I care about the truth."
"Police said they wanted a big fish, I'm a little fish. When they told me that, my motive was to convince them I'm telling the truth about [Thug]." pic.twitter.com/MYnEkUpuZc
— THUGGERDAILY ひ (@ThuggerDaily) August 12, 2024
Unsurprisingly, the state eventually got him designated as a hostile witness:
Lil Woody explaining to the jury why he "snitched" on Young Thug pic.twitter.com/7Ux7IJ9E1a
— THUGGERDAILY ひ (@ThuggerDaily) August 12, 2024
Even leading questions might not be enough to salvage Woody’s testimony at this point, but at least they tried. This is the last thing he said before he went on a “I do not recall” spree:
Lil Woody going on a rant on the stand.
"Y'all trying to put people lives in my hands."
"I don't wanna be here. Y'all have pressured me, I'm tired of Y'ALL, cause y'all know y'all wrong, and y'all black people doing this to us" pic.twitter.com/ZUv7XavNfp
— THUGGERDAILY ひ (@ThuggerDaily) August 12, 2024
The best outcome for Thugger’s team would have been if Steel won that the indictment was fatally defective. A close second has to be seeing the state’s star witness switch sides this aggressively.
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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.