Young Thug’s attorney has filed a fourth motion for his client to be released on bond as the rapper faces RICO indictment in Fulton County, Georgia.
Attorney Brian Steel, spoke with ABC news Wednesday and expressed how his client does not pose a risk and should be let out of jail while he waits for his trial to began. “Mr. Williams is not a risk to commit a crime and he’s not a risk to flee the jurisdiction and that’s what bond is about,” Steel said.
Steel also added that Thug is “sleep deprived” after being present in the courtroom during multiple jury selections. Steel says that his client wakes up at 4 a.m or 5 a.m and doesn’t return to the detention center until later in the day and says those long hours after interfering with his ability to get prepared for the trial.
“This indictment is significant because it targets 28 people who decided to become involved in a criminal street gang and really do havoc in our community,” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, whose office is prosecuting this case, said in a May 10, 2022 press conference announcing the indictment.
“That havoc includes crimes of violence, crimes of theft, crimes involving drugs,” she added. As we previously reported, Thugger pleaded not guilty on all eight counts. “Mr. Williams has committed no violation of law, whatsoever. We will fight this case ethically, legally and zealously. Mr. Williams will be cleared,” Steel expressed to ABC News on May 10, 2022 after the charges were released to the public by the Fulton County District Attorney’s office.
As we previously, Thug had an incident in the courtroom where a drug transaction allegedly went down. Prosecutors believe the rapper and his YSL co-defendant Kahlieff Adams conducted a live drug deal in court!
According to reports, there were three incidents were contraband was brought into the courtroom. One of the alleged incidents happened to be caught on camera, in the video above.
WSB-TV reporter Michael Seiden states that Young Thug and his co-defendant, Kahlieff Adams, allegedly conducted a “hand-to-hand” exchange of a Percocet pill while in the courtroom as jury selection was taking place.