Rapper YNW Melly will remain behind bars after his legal team sought to have him placed on house arrest as he awaits a double murder trial.
In an order issued Monday, Broward Circuit Court Judge Martin Fein denied Melly’s request to set a bond. Fein made his ruling after reviewing the evidence and testimony presented at the first trial and listening to arguments last week at an Arthur hearing, which allows courts to consider setting bonds for defendants charged with crimes that aren’t usually eligible for bail.
“…This Court finds that the State’s evidence is arguably sufficient to convict and is not contradicted in a material respect such that there is a substantial question of fact as to the guilt or innocence of the Defendant,” Fein said in his order…