Bond Denied For Young Thug In RICO Trial
The new judge in the Young Thug RICO case has ruled on the rapper’s request to be released on bond while he is on trial.
According to Courthouse News Service, Judge Paige Reese Whitaker has denied the motion made by Thug’s attorney, Brian Steel to allow the Atlanta recording artist to be released on bond. She also denied Thug and his defendants’ motion for a mistrial based on how the former judge of the case, Chief Judge Ural Glanville handled a secret, ex-parte meeting with prosecutors and a state’s witness.
“I am not going to reconsider any bond issues that have already been considered and ruled upon by another court absent legitimate changed circumstances,” Steele was told on July 30. Whitaker also denied bond for Thug’s associates, Deamonte Kendrick and Marquavius Huey.
The trial is now in its 19th month, extending the longest criminal trial in Georgia history.
“So that the record is clear, the basis for the recusal of Judge Glanville was not that he was biased, was not that the ex-parte itself was improper,” Whitaker said. “It was that Judge Glanville engaged in an exposition on the facts in making his rulings on the motion to recuse.”
Witaker has yet to respond to Thug’s request to have lead prosecutors Chief Deputy District Attorney Adriane Love and Deputy District Attorney Simone Hylton disqualified from the trial based on the ex-parte meeting that took place between Judge Glanville, prosecutors, and one of the witnesses, Kenneth Copeland, “Lil Woody.” She stated that she would not rule on the motion until she could go through the transcript from the ex-parte meeting. After doing so, she can determine if the prosecutors’ actions were coercive or not.
Young Thug is on trial after the state brought a 65-count indictment in May 2022 containing 191 “overt acts” while participating in alleged gang activities through YSL, which is known in the streets as “Young Slime Life.” Thug states that YSL stands for Young Stoner Records and that he and his associates are not gang members.
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