Judge Punishes Attorney For Knowing About Secret Ex Parte With Witness
Free YSL Steel till it's backwards!
Chief Judge Ural Glanville has made some… interesting decisions throughout the YSL RICO trial with regard to holding folks in contempt of court. There was that time where he ordered a juror to write a 30-page essay, not to mention the strip club chicken incident. But his most recent finding of contempt is a recipe for a mistrial.
One of the glaring questions that should be answered after Judge Glanville held Brian Steel in contempt for not disclosing how he knew that Glanville had a private chambers conversation with a witness during a trial is why in the hell was the judge having a private chambers conversation with a witness during a trial?! Holding Steel in contempt read as a pretty obvious means of not answering the latter question, but throwing out contempts will only delay the inevitable motions for mistrial — folks are less than amused with the judge’s antics:
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In case you aren’t familiar with judicial expectations, Glanville’s error wasn’t just wrong, it was textbook:
After this, you’d think that he’d mind his Ps and Qs moving forward. Nope — we have this gem of not knowing what the hell he’s supposed to be doing literally the next day:
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These antics show that Glanville is off his game, but Thug’s attorney Brian Steel isn’t. Despite the judicial rule violations, Glanville is still the acting judge and folks have to abide by his abuses. After doubling down on punishing Steel for not divulging how he knew the judge had an ex parte with jail time, Steel requested that he serve the time with his client.
You should expect to see his name come up when its time to discuss ATL’s Lawyer of the Year.
Earlier: Another YSL RICO Attorney Is Facing Jail Time
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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
