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Young Thug Trial Judge Won’t Step Aside Over ‘Illegal’ Meeting With Prosecutors, Witness
The Atlanta judge overseeing Young Thug’s gang trial refused to recuse himself or declare a mistrial over a secret meeting with prosecutors.
The Atlanta judge overseeing Young Thug ’s gang trial is refusing to recuse himself from the case and declare a mistrial, denying a motion filed by the rapper’s lawyers over revelations of an allegedly “illegal” secret meeting with prosecutors and a star witness. In an extraordinary courtroom episode last week, Steel revealed that he had learned of a secret “ex parte” meeting that morning between Glanville, prosecutors and a witness named Kenneth Copeland. “No intellectually honest person could believe that coercing witness Copeland to testify in a ‘star chamber’ setting meets Constitutional muster.”
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