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Judge Presiding Over Young Thug RICO Trial Ordered Removed from Case
The Young Thug RICO trial judge was ordered removed from the case over a meeting he secretly held with prosecutors and a key witness.
The Atlanta judge overseeing rapper Young Thug ’s gang trial has been ordered removed from the case — a stunning development in sprawling proceedings that have already become the longest-running in Georgia state history. Claiming that the judge had helped prosecutors coerce the uncooperative Copeland into testifying with threats of extended jail time, Steel argued that the ex parte meeting was clear grounds for a mistrial. “Glanville’s actions offend public confidence in the independence, integrity, and impartiality of the judiciary,” wrote fellow defendant Yak Gotti (Deamonte Kendrick) in a petition last month to Georgia’s Supreme Court.
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