Yella Beezy trial | Dallas News Live

We are talking about day two in the murder trial against Dallas rapper Yella Beezy. You guys may have heard us talk about this trial last month. Last month was involving Keewon White. He was found guilty of shooting and killing Moe 3 on I-35 back in 2020. Now, the state prosecutors are saying, and they said a lot during that trial, that they believe Yella Beezy is who hired Keewon White to kill Moe 3. to provide analysis of this trial. I want to bring in an attorney, Sean DeRadia. Sean, I said I was going to mispronounce your name, and I just did it. Tell me your last name again, Sean. Can you hear me, Sean? All right, we're having a little... Okay. Sean, what's your last name? Because I said in my head I was going to mispronounce it, and I just mispronounced it on live TV. Steven, it's all right. It's DeRadia. Sean DeRadia. Sean, you've been following this trial, and for those who may have followed the trial last month, a lot of people have been messaging me, and I've been seeing comments saying, oh this looks like a spitting image of how the prosecution laid out this trial last month talk about for the jury who may not have heard anything about this or only heard some things on social media what is the prosecution doing right now on day one and two of laying the foundation for the crime itself well steven what the what the prosecution is doing right now is they're giving a roadmap of what happened again you know myself and you we know what happened but this is a brand new jury of 12 jurors. So they're explaining how this man died, how Moe 3 died. And it's important for them to talk about how he died because this jury needs to, they need to give the jury a reason to get justice, right? They need to establish some type of emotional connection that this was a, not only was he a rapper, but he was a son. He was someone loved by his peers in the community. So once they establish he was murdered, they're going to get into how was he murdered and it was by 40 rounds by Keewon White and then the question becomes why why would someone in broad daylight shoot 40 rounds at someone what is the reason reason and I think what they're planning on next in the prosecution's case is going to be establishing this Yellow Beezy Mo3 beef and then they're going to really towards the end bring in all the evidence I'm talking about phone records interviews from Yellow Beezy on VladTV rap lyrics they're kind of tie all that in to kind of show the jury that this wasn't just some random murder. It was a murder for hire, and it was done by Yellow Beezy. You're right, Sean. They are laying the groundwork yesterday on day one. They put up Mo3's mother, Melvin Noble's mother, to humanize him. And then they put up, just like they did last month, two women who were in the midst of that shooting today was a surgeon who happened to be heading to a hospital who had scratches on his face from the glass shattering. being caught in the middle of that shooting. And then right before the lunch break, we heard a lot of testimony from different crime scene analysts. How long do you think the state will continue to lay this foundation before we start hearing the case more directed towards Yellow Beezy and these alleged payments? I think it's going to be pretty soon because I've been watching the trial, and you can see Toby Shook, he's not really asking too many questions, and that's part of his strategy. I mean, they're not disputing that Keywan White killed Mo3. That's not an issue in this case. It's whether Yellow Beezy paid him. So they're not asking many questions, and it's going pretty quickly. It's going pretty smoothly. So I would think in the next day or two, by Friday, we're going to start getting into the meat of the case, and they're going to start trying to establish, maybe even sooner, this Yellow Beezy-Mo3 beef, and then we're going to get more into the money that was exchanged and what Yellow Beezy had to do with this murder. This case will be a lot different because in the Keywan White trial, there was a lot of video evidence. You just saw some of it, the video of the shooting, the video of the infamous underwear that went viral of him wearing the same underwear multiple days, a lot of video in that. But when they talked about Yella Beezy in the trial last month, there wasn't a lot of video of him. We don't know what's up the prosecution's sleeve. We'll have to see what they do in court. it's harder to prove the money part it sounds like than the murder it's it's going to be very difficult and if you've watched the news recently there was a little drug trial that's happened last month there was another one previously uh those cases were all murder for hire and they've all been acquittals and the reason it is because it's very difficult to establish that connection you need some direct proof in just a testimony from a witness a lot of times it doesn't meet that threshold of beyond a reasonable doubt a lot of times those witnesses have plea deals in place or they have a reason to lie so the state really has to bring a lot of evidence in this case to establish that murder for hire and so far we haven't seen any evidence yet but i'm looking forward to see what they plan on doing in this case we know rap lyrics will come into this again setting that foundation about the feud between the two Dallas area rappers Melvin Noble Mo3 being from North Dallas Yella Beezy being from Oak Cliff a lot of people watching this case because of the case last month with Kiwan White being found guilty. So the shooter has already been convicted. Is there an uphill battle for Toby Shook, who's a really well-known defense attorney, in proving this, or is the burden, in your opinion, harder on the state in this trial compared to the last trial? In this case, the burden is significantly harder on the state. I mean, everything is on the state. I mean, if Toby Shook doesn't really have to do much in this case because the state, again, has to prove this murder for hire. They have to link those pieces together, and that's a very difficult task. They have to bring credible, strong evidence that has to link it up. And I know I'm expecting to see rap lyrics. I'm expecting to see a Vlad interview. And I don't know how they're going to really piece all that together, but it's beyond a reasonable doubt. So they have to convince these 12 jurors that it is Yella Beezy who ordered this hit. So it's going to be an uphill battle for the state in this instance. Is it likely that the prosecution didn't show all of their cards last month in the Kiwan White trial? When I mean, they said that Yella Beezy and Trap Boy Freddy and others met together at a car dealership in the Irving area, I believe. They didn't show video of that though. Does that mean that they don't have video or does that just mean they didn't show it in the last trial? They may not have shown it. And I know even during Tommy Adams, he's a great prosecutor, in his opening statement, He kept it about four minutes. He didn't really give too much, and I think they're kind of maybe saving that. I think this case will go into next week, and I think next week they're going to maybe drop a few bombshells of evidence really to kind of shock the jury to grab their attention. I think sometimes when you lay everything out during opening statements and you tell them exactly every last detail, not only sometimes you overpromise to the jury, but a lot of times you give the defense a heads up. So then Toby Shook can get his arsenal ready. He's able to prepare for what's coming. But I think they've left a little bit open, a little bit of vagueness there. And I think that's actually a smart move on the prosecution. Sean, we're awaiting the jury to come back from lunch break. Are you expecting more of the same of what we saw this morning as far as just still building that foundation? Again, I've seen comments from people saying, oh, we already know this. And like you already said at the top of this interview, the jury doesn't know it, though. And the only people that really matter in all of this are the 12 people sitting in that jury box, right? Exactly, Stephen. I think they're still trying to establish that murder. They're trying to lead to that buildup. And I think they are trying to, as a former prosecutor, they're trying to build that emotional connection with the jury. Again, the jury needs to find a reason to want to find justice for him. And justice would be who ordered this hit? Why did this happen? And I think the prosecution is going to probably spend the rest of this day establishing that murder. And I think maybe tomorrow we might start seeing some of the yellow be easy, more of beef kind of explaining what led to this buildup. Sean, thank you for your perspective. Are we going to look in at the some of the trial guys? OK. All right, Sean, thank you for your perspective.