The Brief
- A jury was seated on Monday afternoon in the capital murder trial of Dallas rapper Yella Beezy, who faces life in prison if convicted.
- Yella Beezy (a.k.a. Markies Conway) is accused of paying Kewon White to fatally shoot rival rapper MO3 (a.k.a. Melvin Noble) in 2020. White was convicted and sentenced to life in September.
- Attorneys on both sides worked to pick jurors without bias from widespread publicity and prior knowledge of the case.
DALLAS – Testimony gets underway on Tuesday in the trial for Yella Beezy, who is accused of orchestrating the murder of rival Dallas rapper MO3.
Yella Beezy, whose real name is Markies Conway, allegedly paid another man to gun down MO3, whose real name is Melvin Noble, in an ambush on Interstate 35 in Dallas in 2020.
On Monday, a panel of 12 jurors were selected to hear the case.…