Young Thug’s months-long racketeering trial faces yet another delay. This time, defendants are calling on an Atlanta judge to recuse himself from the case. The “Go Crazy” rapper’s lawyer and those for other defendants filed motions demanding that Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville be removed from the case and that another judge oversee the trial, according to the Associated Press .
The motions accused Glanville of holding an “improper” meeting with prosecutors and a prosecution witness, which did not include defendants and their attorneys. In a Monday hearing without jurors (who are on break until July 8), Glanville announced that he would release the transcript of his meeting in June with prosecutor’s witness Kenneth Copeland and his attorneys. He said he would cancel Wednesday’s hearing “indefinitely” and that he would send the attorneys’ motions to recuse to another judge.
“So this written order is entered, I will enter the order transferring it. Until such time that those things are decided, then we’ll be in recess until that time,” Glanville said. The judge’s decision to further delay the drawn-out trial comes weeks after he found Young Thug’s lawyer Brian Steel in criminal contempt of court.
In June, Glanville ordered Steel to spend 10 weekends in jail after the defense attorney refused to disclose how he knew about the judge’s meeting with Copeland and his attorneys. Steel was to report to Fulton County Jail but th.