Yella Beezy Jury Starts Deliberations Wednesday After Final MO3 Arguments
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Yella Beezy must wait another night before jurors begin deciding his fate in the MO3 murder case. Closing arguments ended Tuesday with prosecutors demanding a conviction and his attorneys arguing the state hadn’t proved its case.
The Dallas County panel’s first assignment was choosing a foreperson rather than debating guilt. According to FOX4’s courtroom coverage, the judge told jurors not to discuss the case yet and sent them home ahead of Wednesday’s deliberations.
Prosecutor Tommy Adams tied the alleged plot to a feud with MO3 and pointed jurors toward phone contacts and a disputed $40,000 withdrawal.
Adams argued that meetings involving Yella Beezy and Jerry Johnson were followed by calls to Kewon White. He also pointed to cell phone records showing 15 calls between Johnson and White during the rapper’s 57-hour return trip to North Texas.
Defense attorney John Gussio pushed back against treating gaps as proof.
“It’s not your job to put the pieces in the puzzle. It’s not your job to interpret language and text. It’s not your job to speculate,” Gussio told jurors during his closing argument.
He also challenged the idea that the two rappers’ music established a murder motive.
“There’s no motive to do anything to each other. They were making money,” Gussio said, arguing that artistic material shouldn’t substitute for evidence against his client.
The fight over cash has already occupied a substantial stretch of testimony.
During the defense’s earlier challenge to the payment theory, Detective Eric Barnes acknowledged investigators couldn’t trace recovered cash directly to Yella Beezy’s bank withdrawal.
That transaction occurred November 20, 2020, nine days after MO3’s killing on Interstate 35. The defense also pointed to other large withdrawals and questioned whether the money simply reflected the rapper’s regular spending habits.
Yella Beezy has pleaded not guilty and denied involvement in the killing. Prosecutors accuse him of paying Kewon White to carry it out, while White was separately convicted of capital murder in September.
The jury is due back at 9 A.M. Wednesday to begin deliberations.
