North Fulton Today

As attorneys on both sides of the RICO case against Young Slime Life rapper Young Thug and others begin the jury selection process, the timeline could last as long as nine months for the trial to complete, according to a recent report by FOX 5 Atlanta.

This comes given the high number of witnesses and defendants in the case and the wide area of terrain to be legally covered. While Fulton County Judge Ural Glanville said the trial that finds Young Thug at the center could stretch on for six to nine months, the low end of the estimate was double the three-month estimate prosecutors provided and the high end based on another Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act case in Fulton County.

With debates continuing, one Fulton County prosecutor said estimating the trial could last six to 12 months would be a "safer path" when it comes to jury selection, FOX 5 reports.

"You're going to lose a number of people that cannot be jurors for that amount of time, so I'd like to give them a realistic range," Glanville told FOX 5 Atlanta.

Young Thug, whose legal name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, was indicted along with 27 others earlier this year using the state's RICO Act and indictment charging that the defendants are part of a street gang known as Young Slime Life or YSL.

With the trial now delayed until March at the request of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, lawyers for Williams have long insisted that YSL is not a gang and artistic expression does not imply they are complicit in criminal activity.