The new judge in Young Thug’s sprawling Atlanta RICO trial denied the rapper’s renewed request to be released from jail until a verdict is reached.
Young Thug attends the 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on Oct. 1, 2021 in Atlanta.’s sprawling Atlanta gang trial has denied the rapper’s renewed request to be released from jail until a verdict is reached.over a secret meeting with prosecutors and a key witness — were the kind of “changed circumstances” that would allow her to overturnBut at a hearing Tuesday, Whitaker was unswayed. “I don’t know how I would have decided the bond originally,” the judge said.
Thug has been sitting in jail for more than two years while the slow-moving trial has dragged on, repeatedly denied bond by Glanville over concerns that he might intimidate witnesses. But with Glanville gone, Steel argued last week that Thug should not be “languishing in the county jail” under “tortuous” conditions when he has not be convicted of a crime.
The judge is also still considering whether case should continue at all. Thug and three of the other YSL defendants have moved for a mistrial, citing Glanville’s conduct and other issues with the case.
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