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YNW Melly scored a significant legal victory this week after prosecutors dropped multiple witness tampering related charges just days before trial proceedings were set to begin. During a status ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A tampering with a witness charge has been dropped against rapper YNW Melly, who has been jailed in South Florida since his arrest in connection with the homicides of his two ...

In a development in the almost never ending murder retrial of YNW Melly, Florida prosecutors have dismissed a witness tampering charge against the rapper, just days before the allegation was set to be ...

YNW Melly will no longer go to trial for witness tampering after prosecutors dropped the charges. The Florida rapper's trial was scheduled to start on Wednesday (Jan. 21). However, during a hearing on ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Broward County prosecutors dropped witness tampering charges against Jamell YNW Melly Demons, the former rapper accused of the 2018 murders of two childhood friends and fellow ...

Rapper YNW Melly walked into Broward County court Monday in a blue suit and handcuffs, as he greeted his new defense attorneys. Melly’s real name is Jamell Demons. The 26-year-old is charged with ...

State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...

YNW Melly's motion to substitute his legal team ahead of his double-murder retrial has been granted. On Wednesday (Sept. 24), Melly appeared in Broward County Court, where Judge Martin Fein ruled on ...

YNW Bortlen’s lawyer denied any cooperation with prosecutors after a plea deal dropped murder charges in the YNW Melly case. YNW Bortlen accepted a 10-year plea deal on lesser charges in the double ...

YNW Bortlen, the Florida rapper who was arrested in 2019 and accused of taking part in the killings of two members of his YNW crew, has agreed to a plea deal. According to court records, Bortlen, ...

Rapper YNW Melly’s confidant and co-defendant — accused of participating in the murder of two associates in 2019 and covering up the killings to look like a drive-by shooting — accepted a plea deal in ...