The third judge in Young Thug’s YSL RICO trial hasn’t changed the circumstances for the troubled rapper, who has now been denied a mistrial and a bond in his last hearing.
The YSL RICO trial resumed yesterday(July 30) after a delay due to a new judge needed after Judge Glanville was removed on July 15 following a private meeting with prosecutors and a state witness without the knowledge of Thug’s legal team.
Judge Paige Reese Whitaker, who has been recently assigned to the trial, denied both motions by Thug’s legal team. The mistrial motion filed by Thug’s lawyer Brian Steel was based on the original judge’s finding that his own controversial ex parte hearing was not improper. Whitaker said that declaring a mistrial for that reason would be equivalent to acting as an appeals court, which is beyond the scope of her responsibilities.
Whitaker denied the bond hearing, ruling that recent events do not constitute a “change in circumstances,” noting that Judge Ural Glanville was not removed because he was biased.
Young Thug’s co-defendant and fellow YSL rapper Yak Gotti (real name Deamonte Kendrick) also filed a motion for a mistrial in the turbulent case.
On this, Judge Whitaker said the motion is similar to the motion to disqualify the prosecutors (which she said she needs more time on) and that she needed to go through the transcripts a little further before making a ruling.
Whitaker also said she will make a “substantive finding” about the ex parte hearing on Wednesday (July 31).
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