Young Thug’s lawyer found in contempt and sentenced to 10 weekends in jail

A lawyer representing rapper Young Thug was sentenced to spend 10 weekends in the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta after being found in contempt.

According to the court, Brian Steel was escorted from the courtroom on Monday after Judge Ural Glanville refused to explain the meeting between him, a state witness and prosecutors. Atlanta Journal Constitution. The alleged meeting took place “in the judge’s chambers before the start of the hearing,” the AJC reported.

Glanville ordered Steel to spend 10 weekends – a complete of 20 days – in prison and report to the Rice Street facility by 7pm on Fridays. Steel asked if he could as an alternative serve his sentence on the Cobb County Jail so he could confer together with his client, Young Thug, and Glanville approved his request.

“You have some information you shouldn’t have gotten,” Glanville told Steel before a courtroom deputy arrested the rapper’s lawyer.

Steel moved for a mistrial, telling the judge that (*10*) Glanville later allowed Steel to rejoin the courtroom.

Witness Kenneth Copeland testified on Monday after initially refusing to testify on Friday when he was expected to accomplish that. Copeland has an immunity agreement “contingent on his testimony,” the AJC reports.

Copeland, who’s scheduled to return to the witness stand on Tuesday, dodged a lot of the prosecutor’s questions on Monday. During Monday’s lunch break, Steel learned of the alleged encounter and asked Glanville about it after they returned from break.

“What about the witness, what about Mr. Copeland, who allegedly announced that he would not testify and would sit for two years, and apparently this honorable court, or let me put it another way, this court, said that I can detain you until the end of this trial ” Steele said.

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Steel added that he learned that prosecutor Simone Hylton told Copeland he can be held in jail “until all 26 defendants’ cases are concluded, regardless of how long that may take,” according to the AJC.

“If this is true, what we are dealing with here is coercion, witness intimidation and ex parte communication, and we have a constitutional right to be present,” Steel told Glanville.

Glanville responded by questioning Steel on how he obtained this information. “I want to know why I wasn’t there,” Steel replied.

Glanville then ordered Steel’s removal and then announced that he would proceed the trial. “I’m not holding anything back,” the judge said, according to the AJC.

Young Thug was arrested in May 2022 on racketeering charges. According to reports, the rapper is amongst 28 people related to the YSL label who’ve been charged on 56 counts. Complex.