
Williams comes back to Court when required to do so, and due to the extended nature of this trial, Mr. “Undersigned counsel believes that conditions can be set to ensure that Mr. “This Honorable Court denied bond based upon proffers made by the prosecution, mostly repeating allegations contained in the Indictment,” Steel continued in the motion. Williams has previously put forth compelling evidence, without doubt … that conditions can be imposed which permit bond to be set. Williams has been languishing in the County Jail without bond. Steel had filed a motion in late April to secure bond, in which he said, “since on or about May 9, 2022, Mr. On May 11, Young Thug was taken to a local hospital for evaluation. The rapper has been in jail for more than a year awaiting trial on numerous RICO-related charges attorney Brian Steel heads up the rapper’s legal team, and has filed several motions to free his client on bond. After voir dire, the jury is selected from the panel. The questions are intended to help the lawyers in the jury selection process. During voir dire, the jury panel is questioned by both parties’ lawyers.

Georgia’s longest jury selection and its longest trial both came in the Atlanta Public Schools teacher scandal of 2014-15.Īlmost 1,000 potential jurors have been called since January, the summons call being part of the trial called voir dire, the process used by prosecutors and defenders to select a fair and impartial jury. Jury selection has already lasted longer than any other trial in Georgia history, and the trial itself - if it ever gets underway - could last for more than a year.

Jury selection is set to resume Monday, July 10, as Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville will again continue trying to seat a jury after a hiatus of more than a week. Jury selection began January 4, and not a single juror has been seated. Tuesday marks six months since jury selection began in the massive organized crime trial of Jeffery Lamar Williams, aka Young Thug.

(Atlanta News First) - This year’s July 4 marks a dubious milestone in what has already become a record-breaking trial in the Peach State.
