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The trial of Jamell “YNW Melly” Demons ended Saturday afternoon with a hung jury after more than 14 hours of deliberation over three days.

Jurors told Broward Circuit judge John J. Murphy they could not reach a unanimous decision even after they were instructed Friday to do everything they could to resolve their disagreements. They deliberated for more than five hours after telling the judge Friday they were deadlocked.

The failure to reach a verdict means the jury is excused, Demons, 24, will likely remain in custody and the process will begin anew at a later date with a new jury. Prosecutors will be able to reconsider whether to pursue the death penalty.

The new trial should begin with jury selection in 90 days, Murphy said.

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Cortlen "YNW Bortlen" Henry, the Florida rapper charged along with YNW Melly with killing two of his crew members back in 2018, has taken a plea deal.

On Tuesday (September 9), Bortlen was one day away from jury selection beginning in his trial, where he was facing two counts of murder in the first degree with a firearm and two counts of accessory after the fact for the murders of Christopher "YNW Juvy" Thomas, Jr. and Anthony “YNW Sakchaser” Williams. He was also facing a number of charges in a related witness tampering case from 2023.

Bortlen pleaded no contest to the accessory after the fact charges and two of the charges in the witness tampering case. In return, prosecutors dropped the first degree murder charges, which would have landed him life in prison if convicted, as well as the remainder of the witness tampering charges.

In return, Bortlen will get 10 years in prison, followed by six years of probation. As part of the plea deal, he has also agreed to provide information to prosecutors (called a "proffer") at a later date. Nothing Bortlen says at the proffer will change the terms of his sentence in any way, the judge made clear.

Melly faces a second trial on the charges, scheduled to begin early next year, after an initial case ended in a mistrial.

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