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The new trial date will take place eight years after the rapper was arrested in the case<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\tYNW Melly<\/a>, born Jamell Demons,\u00a0was denied bond again in his long-delayed double murder case<\/a>. Judge Martin Fein ruled on Wednesday, May 6, that the rapper, who has spent more than seven years incarcerated without a verdict, will behind bars ahead of trial.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe Court, the State Attorney\u2019s Office, and all who observed this bond hearing should have been deeply troubled by the clear evidence presented regarding the inhumane conditions Mr. Demons has endured for over seven years \u2014 including the last three in solitary confinement \u2014 while still presumed innocent under our Constitution,\u201d Demons\u2019 lawyers Drew Findling and Carey Haughwout said in a statement. \u201cYet the Court denied bond and allowed those conditions to continue without even acknowledging the shocking circumstances under which he has been forced to live.\u201d<\/p>\n His attorneys called Demons\u2019 treatment \u201ccruel and extreme,\u201d and expressed \u201cdisbelief and outrage at the conditions imposed in this case.\u201d They continued, \u201cUnfortunately, it now appears that only a jury verdict compelling his release will bring an end to the years of unnecessary and unjust punishment he has already suffered.\u201d<\/p>\n