New decide units floor guidelines for long-running gang and racketeering case towards rapper Younger Thug

Fulton County Superior Court docket Choose Paige Reese Whitaker held a listening to with prosecutors and protection attorneys to know any pending points she wanted to handle and lay down some floor guidelines.

Whitaker acquired the case after the primary decide overseeing it, Chief Choose Ural Glanville, was eliminated. Two defendants had sought his recusal, citing a gathering the decide held with prosecutors and a state witness.

Jury choice started in January 2023 and took almost 10 months. Opening statements have been in November, and the prosecution has been presenting its case since then, calling dozens of witnesses.

Whitaker mentioned she was “parachuting in” and had not been following the case.

The case is presently on maintain, with jurors due again in August. Whitaker mentioned she plans to start out court docket promptly at 8:45 a.m. She additionally requested for a “lifelike” witness record from attorneys, together with what they count on these witnesses to say.

She famous she had the authority to exclude proof and mentioned she might use it.

“I would like for us to attempt to be environment friendly with the jury’s time,” she mentioned.

Younger Thug, a Grammy winner whose given identify is Jeffery Williams, was charged two years in the past in a sprawling indictment accusing him and greater than two dozen others of conspiring to violate Georgia’s anti-racketeering regulation. He is also charged with gang, drug and gun crimes.

He’s standing trial with 5 different folks indicted with him.

Brian Metal, a lawyer for Younger Thug, has mentioned his consumer is harmless and seeks to clear his identify by a good trial.

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