Yella Beezy Trial Witness Gets Immunity Then Says “I Made It Up”

Jose Bodega testified under immunity in Yella Beezy‘s capital murder trial Monday and said he made up his earlier grand jury claims.

“I made it up,” Jose Bodega said, according to FOX 4’s courtroom report.

Bodega, whose legal name is Theodore Thomas, said he had lied when he claimed Yella Beezy and Trapboy Freddy wanted MO3 dead. Judge Chika Anyiam let prosecutors question him as a hostile witness.

Judge Anyiam also told jurors how they could use his past account.

“You may not consider those earlier statements as evidence that the facts stated in them are true,” Judge Anyiam told them.

Jurors could weigh the statements when deciding whether to believe his current testimony, but could not treat them as proof of the rapper’s guilt.

Prosecutor Tommy Adams noted Bodega had stood by his claims for more than 18 months.

Monday’s testimony followed a very different appearance last Thursday. As AllHipHop previously reported, Bodega repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment outside the jury’s presence and declined to answer questions about his grand jury account.

He also would not answer a defense question about whether he had recanted to a detective while accompanied by his attorney. Bodega spoke to the grand jury on February 13, 2025. The record of that session ran 143 pages.

Bodega, Yella Beezy’s childhood friend, had agreed to help in MO3’s murder case as part of a deal in his own federal drug case. Defense expert Julianna Moore discussed that deal at an October 6 hearing.

MO3, whose legal name was Melvin Noble, was killed on November 11, 2020, on Interstate 35E in Dallas. Kewon White chased him on foot with a rifle before shooting him. White was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole.

Yella Beezy, whose legal name is Markies Conway, pleaded not guilty to capital murder and denied involvement in MO3’s killing. Prosecutors alleged he paid White $40,000 to carry out the shooting.

His lawyers disputed that money trail. Defense attorney Toby Shook argued that cash linked to White came from drug activity, challenging the state’s claim that Yella Beezy financed the killing.

“They have a theory as to what happened, but that can’t fill in all those gaps,” Shook said during opening statements.