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So, How Is the YSL Trial’s New Judge Doing?

“She’s sort of stuck with it.”

There may not be a less desirable job in law right now than presiding over the lengthy, messy, highly scrutinizedRICO trial against six alleged YSL gang members, including Young Thug, in Georgia. Adanté Pointer, a civil-rights attorney, “was actually kind of surprised” Whitaker didn’t grant a mistrial over what he sees as “fatal flaws” in the case, like the ex parte meeting and Glanville’s past remarks toward the defense. But the judge is not supposed to be so self-interested in the process that she overrides and runs roughshod over the defendants’ rights.” In spite of Whitaker’s ruling, Young Thug has seemed upbeat in moments since the trial returned, even laughing with Steel during down time in court.

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