Rapper Jose Bodega takes the stand as a hostile witness in Yella Beezy trial | FULL TESTIMONY

Описание: Rapper Jose Bodega, whose legal name is Theodore Thomas, testified for more than three hours Monday in the Yella Beezy murder-for-hire trial, and the judge allowed prosecutors to treat him as a hostile witness. Bodega answered under a grant of use immunity, which the court approved on the state's motion, days after invoking his Fifth Amendment right and declining to testify.

Bodega told jurors that what he previously said about Markies Conway's involvement, to detectives, to a grand jury and to attorneys, was not true. Prosecutors walked him through his February 2025 grand jury transcript line by line. He did not deny giving the answers, saying instead that he made them up. "You're making me relie," he told the prosecutor, "when that was my whole point, to tell you that I lied in the first place."

On cross-examination, defense attorney Toby Shook established that Bodega was under federal indictment when he testified to that grand jury, had spent about 18 months in federal custody and was facing up to 25 years, and that prosecutors later raised the prospect of charges carrying a life sentence. Bodega agreed the pressure was intense. He entered a federal reentry program, his case was dismissed after he completed it, and he did not recant until the night before the trial of Kewon White, who was convicted of capital murder in the shooting and sentenced to life without parole.

The judge instructed jurors they may consider the earlier statements only in deciding how much to believe Bodega's testimony, and may not consider them as evidence that the facts in them are true or as evidence of Conway's guilt.

Prosecutors say Conway paid $40,000 to have Dallas rapper MO3, Melvin Noble Jr., killed on Interstate 35 in 2020. Conway has pleaded not guilty.

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