Young Thug's 'Lifestyle' played in court

all right judge there was one matter that Mr Steele brought to our attention I don't know if he in to what is it he had intended to introduce a video I don't know if he intends to do that today but if he does it's a matter that would probably be best argued outside the uh presence of the jury he served it on us um this morning that he intended to do that so how long is that video it's minutes four minutes maybe okay have you all looked at it we yes we've looked at it we U contend that it is in m

issible through Mr uh Stevens by Mr steel under 24881 d2a it's his client's video outside presence of the jury served us he intended to do [Music] the same thing happened yesterday yesterday it said and then it changed the full oh let me she made something yesterday all right Mr steel are you trying to show this video today yes sir I see um get it thank you let's mark it and can we pull it up so I can look at it what what ex what exhibit are you going to mark it as Mr that will be number soon as

and I ask Mr if he's faster today okay because I'm really I'm really kind of annoyed with his slowness of pulling up these videos I'm just teasing all right Mr cooko can you uh can you uh pull it up okay no pressure hold on one second Mr cooko I need to get my and Hold On Tight hand tight one [Music] second [Applause] [Applause] this is defendant Williams 32 is that correct m steel correct your H all right Mr cook go ahead and play it sir G baby got like 4 in a lot of just a live this [Music] l

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top BG God told me they can never stop me so they ain't going to stop me in that with baby mom I'm bleeding like a devil I see the they want to know I got and I fin a lot of [Music] justy bottom to top [Music] my of the Ming on CL I do it for my daddy I do it for I swear to God I the jle got [Applause] about give me a do head I swear strong BL [Music] [Music] dayag in the middle ofci understand Mech bad popping that GTV living that lifestyle yeah I do this for his gladdest boy [Music] 100 one t

ime to enough Mr K all right okay all right um so Mr steel um you want me to admit this and what's the reason I I suppose you're you're going to lay a foundation through U Mr Stevens good morning sir and yes that is true and then assuming that Foundation is laid to thisable Court's um satisfaction and the court admits it um there are three things that are pertinent to this uh video you will look if you don't mind or may remember in overact number 14 of count one you will see a photograph that th

e grand jury attached to that charge and it's Mr Williams along with Mr Copeland it's a uh Instagram posting allegedly uh with Mr Williams Instagram handle and they are wearing uh shirts that you see in this video the shirts are RG and RG it would be my contention stands for Rich Gang and Rich Gang we're here with you know an allegation of a criminal street gang and I want the jurors I think I'm entitled I would like like to entitled to show the jurors what Rich Gang is that is their music uh co

mpilation number two um there is a lot of red being worn in um the video that has been just played for the ass Court which I believe is number 31 if I'm wrong it's 32 32 okay thank you and um Mr Williams is not wearing red in the video it is being worn by other people the third reason your honor is there are two witnesses on the state's witness list Mr Brian Williams his uh performing name is Birdman and Mr um and of course I can't remember it's Lamar I can't remember his first name says Lamar Q

uan the quantis Lamar thank you I apologize also a performer known as Rich Homan or um rhq he is in that video he's a performer it will explain Mr Williams relationship with them and this is not a statement as in ocga section 24-8 d801 d2a as in Alisa and Alpha because um I am not looking for this statement or these words of Mr Williams he he's part he is singing and the there are lyrics of Mr Williams that he is singing on this video but these um words are not for the indictment this was also m

ade in 20 12 or 13 I check yes I have to check my notes all right um got all that um how why do you think that Mr Stevens would be a better witness for a foundation rather than either Birdman or Mr Mr Williams or Mr Lamar Rich Homy Quant if they're in the video and if they're going to be called um why wouldn't it be better to lay a foundation through them two reasons first of all I believe that Mr Stevens can this is a um public um domain this make difference if it's public or not you still got

to still have to have some basis of like frame of reference to then kind of just kind of just lay the lay the foundation from that you still have to kind of Orient it as to place and space and um I'm not saying that it's not admissible it's just I don't think that he's unless he has some Nexus with that I mean you could then we'd be up here all the time and you just be showing people oh do you understand this or do you you know does this is this the person that we're looking at you've got to hav

e context and if he can't provide context he's not the best person to probably lay the foundation for that I he can State the obvious but I mean but but he's got no context much like or different like if you have Mr Williams or Mr AR come in they say okay well listen yeah I'm in the video and let me tell you in 2012 or 13 with the foundation this is what was going on and here's why we're singing about the rich guy do you see the difference no I well okay you we'll have to disagree professionally

on that one I'm not I'm not trying to disagree no no no no no look you're asking me a question I'm asking you a question but I'm also I'm also telling you why I would probably sustain the state's objection I'm at this point I think it from the course perspective it's admissible it's just not admissible through him well I I'm going to then ask the court um to reconsider for two two issues first of all um and and I know every ruling is different I'm aware of that but the pushing P video that is d

irectly in the indictment I Mr Stevens did not have any type Ty Nexus to this and and it was objected to and I I'm telling you it's I'm I'm telling you why I'm I as the I as the gatekeeper are not going to continue on that on that line of of uh of of introduction of then I and I don't want to raise a frivolous motion no that is the gatekeeper um that you are going to do and that the gates not opening up right now yeah I mean I'm just telling you that again I think the the evidence is relevant an

d it's admissible for the reasons you just told me now I understand that you know this is the state's case and Chief and you're trying to get out what you what you need he's he's just not the the the the witness to do so okay well I also like in the court to um when I make the motion I'm making it now then any of the state's Witnesses who are going to talk about lyrics going to talk about videos going to talk about photographs they have no Nexus they are just pulling things off the internet that

's in the public domain and then if this honorable Court just adopts this or not adopts if enforces this ruling then I'm making a motion to exclude that evidence I I rule on what's in front of me okay it's disingenuous to say that okay I look at what is presented before me I try and get it right from both sides I am not admitting or exclusion excluding evidence in a vacuum so for you to say that is disingenuous to the court I'm going to look at the evidence depending upon the facts and circumsta

nces of what Happ before me if the state has has an issue of foundation I'm going to I'm going to hold them accountable as well and remember what I told you about the lyrics and everything else it is dependent upon what is presented in terms of a foundation and I I believe I made that very clear when we argued that motion with Mr Carlson so um I'm just telling you I believe your evidence is for a proper purpose I just don't believe that Mr Stevens is the is the right person at this time for the

reasons that you I've just I've just stated he provides no he provides no part of it is you have to you have to know what's in what you have to know or have some relevant basis to testify about what's in the what's what's in the video or what's in the item what's in the picture Mr Steven struggled with that yesterday he really did and that's that's the Court's concern Madam did you have something you want to say I do your honor additionally your honor the requirement of rule 801 d2a that an admi

ssion and it does not have to be inculpatory or exculpatory but that it be offered against a party is designed to ex exclude the introduction of self-serving statements by the party making them so the state's contention is that if Mr Williams wants to put in words spoken by Mr Williams Mr Williams will have to take the stand and he can get that in and that he would be the proper person to get in his statements through not someone else that is the reason that we are objecting I that's strenuous a

s I've ever been before court disagree I am not using these lyrics or statements for any type of Truth in matter I am not I am showing what I told the court the lyrics as as everything are not taken for truth so 801 d2a is not a statement as a state is trying to make they want to say any utterance by Mr Williams is some sort of self-serving statement that is not true there's a it's still a statement self serving and it has no it's got 801 a statement means an oral or written assertion or nonverb

al conduct of a person if it's intended by the person as an assertion so all are written assertions pretty broad under 801 a well I mean I'm so um Mr steel I mean you can you can identify it I'm telling you how I'm probably going to rule at this point in time I'm not I'm just and if if that's your desire I'm going to tell you that I'm not going to admit it at this time but however that I'll reconsider it um depending upon who else um testifies so noted okay all right let's go ahead and unless th

ere's anything else we're going to call for our jury