YNW Melly’s co-defendant in his double-murder case, YNW Bortlen, has taken a plea deal from Florida prosecutors, avoiding a jury trial a day before it was set to begin.

At a hearing Tuesday (Sept. 9) in Broward County court, Bortlen (Cortlen Henry) agreed to plead no contest to four lesser counts in the case, including accessory after the fact and witness tampering. In exchange, prosecutors dropped two first-degree murder charges.

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Under the deal, the judge sentenced Bortlen to 10 years in prison followed by six years on probation — far l

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