by Rapper Young Thug’s lawyer avoided the imprisonment on Wednesday, thanks to the Georgia Supreme Court, after being thought of his famous client by a Georgia judge in the controversial Rico case. Public Prosecutors have accused the rapper of it to lead a street gang established in Atlanta to, among other things, commit acts of murder and theft.
The indictment of Brian Steel, who has represented the Grammy-Award-winning artist in the controversial matter of Georgia, is the latest development in a case that has been disrupted with setbacks, which adds another layer to what the longest test in state history is.
This is what about the complex criminal proceedings of Young Thug.
🗣️ What happens to Young Thug’s lawyer?
On June 7, Judge Ural Glanville Steel in criminal contempt after he accused Glanville and Justice Officers of having a “unconstitutional” closed-door meeting with Kenneth “Lil Woody” Copeland-De Star witnessed the prosecutor and refused to tell him about the meeting.
Copeland is accused of being an employee of YSL, the record label of Young Thug. Copeland says that YSL stands for the young Stoner -Life, but prosecutors say that YSL also stands for Young Slim Life, a violent street gang.
The same day, Copeland, which had taken immunity, did not take the position after claiming his fifth Investor and was taken to prison.
Copeland, however, came back and testified on 10 June about his connections with Young Thug and YSL.
Steel said Glanville in court that if a meeting with a closed door would happen, “what this is, coercion, witness intimidation, ex parte communication for which we have a constitutional right to be present.”
Glanville had ordered Staal to serve the next 10 weekends in the prison of Fulton County from this weekend, but on June 12, Georgia’s Supreme Court made an emergency request to request a bond. Steel will not report to prison on Friday and will remain free while his contempt for judicial indictment is lodged on appeal.
⚖️ What is the process about?
Young Thug in Lollapalooza, 1 August 2021. (Vashon Jordan Jr./Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
In May 2022, a large jury of Fulton County Rapper Jeffrey accused “Young Thug” Williams on conspiracy to violate the racketeer -influenced and corrupt organizations law, also known as Rico. The rapper was also accused of gang, drug and weapon crimes.
The rapper, charged together with 27 other people, is on trial with five co -suspects. Several of those mentioned in the indictment, took or a plea, had no kind of legal representation if their affairs were separated from the Young Thug process or were not arrested.
Under the gang activities stated in the indictment, his murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, severe abuse with a fatal weapon and hijacking vehicles. In August 2022, extra counts were added to record drug and arms costs for Young Thug. The Rico declining and his two gang declarations bear a prison sentence of five to 20 years.
Fulton County Officer Adriane Love accused members of YSL of ‘Moving as a platoon’, in which the young criminal leads them and their employees.
“For 10 years and count, the group that called itself Young Slim Life called the Cleveland Avenue community of Fulton County,” Love said during opening statements in November. She also accused YSL of creating a crater in the middle of the Cleveland Avenue community of Fulton County, who sucked the youth, innocence and even the life of some [its] Youngest members. “
All the defendants who are justified have not guilty.
Steel told the New York Times in 2022 that the rapper “came out of an incredibly terrible upbringing, and during his life he behaved during a way in a way that is used to surprise. He has not committed any crime.”
🏛️ What makes the test so complex?
Since the process began in November 2023, at least 17 specific sets of Young Thug and YSL who were mentioned in the indictment have been submitted as evidence. Prosecutors say that the texts represent “open acts to promote the conspiracy” to violate the Rico Act.
The lyrics include: “You want to become a mucus? Are you going to catch a body”, from YSL’s song “Real Be Smarte” and “I never killed anyone, but I have anything to do with that body … I get all kinds of money, I am a general”, from the number of the young Thug’s 2018, “someone”.
However, the defense argued that admitting the texts as proof was racist.
“The use of these lyrics/poetry/artistry/speech against Mr. Williams is racist and discriminatory because the jury will be so poisoned and biased by these texts/poetry/artistry/speech as the same is illegal,” said Young Thug’s lawyer in a motion.
The Young Thug process is one of the two high -profile things that the Fulton Count District Attorney Fani Willis will continue. In 2023 she accused former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen of his allies on Rico decisions for alleged conspiracy to try to destroy the presidential election results of Georgia.
The complex test has also been weighed by a series of events who have delayed the judicial process, including:
▶ ️ What happens afterwards
Glanville has refused the Young Thug Bond several times and claims that the rapper was a threat to witnesses, had the potential to flee and a danger to the community.
The process could continue in 2025.
