The RICO trial of Young Thug and his co-defendants will resume Monday with more testimony after the new judge denied the final pending mistrial motion
Jeffery Williams aka Young Thug speaks with his attorney Brian Steel during a motion hearing on Tuesday, July 30 at the Fulton County courtroom in Atlanta.has denied the final pending mistrial motion related to the secret meeting between prosecutors, a sworn witness and the trial’s former boss, Judge Ural Glanville, that led to
“Because the meeting dealt with Copeland’s immunity grant and its ancillary issues, it was not a critical state of the trial at which the defendant had a right to be present,” Whitaker wrote. She said she was not persuaded by the additional claim Judge Glanville “coerced” Copeland to testify. Judge Whitaker said earlier this week that it’s possible some of Copeland’s examination from his first three days on the stand could remain on the record, but only the portions agreed to by lawyers for Young Thug and his five co-defendants in the trial.
Williams, 32, denies the charges. He says YSL stands for Young Stoner Life, the name of his record label. His lawyer Brian Steel has called the sprawling RICO indictment, which names 28 defendants, “unconscionable and unconstitutional.” In his opening statement, Steel said Williams surmounted “severe poverty” to become a world-renowned musician. “He is not sitting there telling people to kill people. He doesn’t need their money. Jeffery is worth tens of millions of dollars.
Once Judge Whitaker was handed the reins the same week as the recusal, she immediately promised to move forward “efficiently and expeditiously.” On July 30, she made good on that vow, issuing a number of oral rulings from the bench. Her first ruling was to deny prosecutors’ request for a “gag order” preventing lawyers from speaking publicly about the case.
“I cannot believe that they would have asked for this ex-parte and conducted the ex-parte in the fashion they did it unless they knew they would be forcing us into a position to request a mistrial,” Weinstein argued to Judge Whitaker on July 30. “We are winning this case. The state’s witnesses have not testified in the way that I imagine they expected them to testify, and I do not believe that they should be allowed a do-over in this case.
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