Brian Steel, attorney for rapper Young Thug, arrives at the Fulton County Courthouse on Nov. 27, 2023 in Atlanta.will not have to report to jail this weekend on criminal contempt charges after the Georgia Supreme Court granted his emergency motion for bond.
Rather than address Steel’s complaints, Glanville instead repeatedly demanded that he divulge who had informed him about a private meeting in his chambers, suggesting the leak was illegal: “If you don’t tell me how you got this information, you and I are going to have problems.” Jury selection kicked off in January 2023, but the trial itself did not begin until November and has since been marked by. With dozens of witnesses still set to testify in the prosecution case, the trial is expected to run into 2025.
“The court then compounded its abuse of power by presiding over the very contempt hearing where its own rules violations prompted the controversy,” Steel’s attorneys continued. “The court should have recused and allowed the contempt proceedings to be handled by a separate court.”