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A man charged with killing Young Dolph cannot get a fair trial in Memphis due to the intense media attention and “public visceral outrage” over the slaying of the beloved rapper in his hometown, a defense lawyer said Friday. Justin Johnson's attorney asked a judge to bring in a jury from outside of Shelby County for the trial of Johnson and Cornelius Smith Jr. Both men have been charged with first-degree murder in the daytime ambush of Young Dolph, who was buying cookies at a Memphis bakery when he was gunned down in November 2021.

A defense lawyer says a man charged with killing Young Dolph cannot get a fair trial in Memphis due to the intense media attention.

Now, here you are, and it's his funeral. the morning was a little bit deeper. the loss of such a great person and the fabric of mantas society was so tragic and painful. you can see that on peoples faces, all the tears, the hugging. >> reporter: to help the city heal, the memphis mayor made a promise. >> justice will be done, that's not a pledge. >> reporter: justice, of course, dependent on a thorough police investigation. detectives were not playing catch-up, given how long it had taken to find lorenzen's body after he was murdered. at the crime scene, clues were already emerging. >> police ...

He arrived and's stayed the day with phil dawson and some of the threats. >> carving sunday afternoon with just the guys hanging, bonding. >> a few hours later, lorenzen picked up this at a local gym, and then dropped them off at his ex-wife's, where he sometimes visited when he was in town. >> he said, i will call you later. so, that being about ten pm, i left. got home and i never heard from him. >> sunday night past. no call from lorenzen. >> i went on the text, he didn't reply. >> i'm sure you try to reach him the next day. >> next day. nothing. >> was that odd or still thinking that he's ...

Grizzlies and all the other nba teams, so the money is going to sherra, because she is the custody of her own children with lorenzen. >> there was that life insurance policy that lorenzen put in place for her is six children when he and sherra divorced. when his father found out that sherra was not using the money in their best interest, he sued. >> he spent somewhere like manager $30,000. >> burn right versus sherra wright, who received more than 1 million dollars between august -- >> we end up going to court. the entire insurance fund is almost all gone, and his father wanted to put a stop t...