At some point, watching the YSL RICO case changed from being about determining if Jeffrey Williams was the head of a gang to determining which rule of judicial ethics Chief Judge Glanville would decide to skirt next. And as interesting as it is to see a judge imprison lawyers for representing their clients’ interests, at some point push gets to shove. Yesterday, attorney Brian Steel dropped an unknown folder off at the bench.
And we end on a cliffhanger…
Steel drops a packet off to the state and the Judge and says it will be filed tomorrow. Everyone spends the next few minutes silently reading through it. No idea what it is but soon as it's filed I'll post about it. pic.twitter.com/dPiM5aGcS2
— THUGGERDAILY ひ (@ThuggerDaily) June 17, 2024
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We finally know what it was. As it turns out, it was a little motion to let Glanville know the Rubicon is long passed:
YOUNG THUG'S LAWYER, BRIAN STEEL, HAS FILED A MOTION TO RECUSE JUDGE GLANVILLE FROM THE YSL CASE pic.twitter.com/PokiBzCTgf
— THUGGERDAILY ひ (@ThuggerDaily) June 17, 2024
You can read the motion in full here. Given Steel’s interest in his client’s right to due process, this is the move to make — Williams’s interests wouldn’t be served if he just pretended that both the judge and prosecution seem stacked against him.
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The thing that the Brian Steel motion to disqualify states plainly is that Judge Glanville has an actual conflict of interest by making himself a witness in addition to giving an appearance of bias given professional slights before the YSL jury and not following regular order.
— Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) June 17, 2024
Rulings alone are generally not sufficient basis removing a judge. Their conflict or appearance of a conflict must typically be extrajudicial. So, a few off rulings in favor of the state wouldn’t be enough to claim bias. Here, there’s more than enough though to require referral.
— Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) June 17, 2024
The above analysis, besides being clear, feels like common sense. To everyone except Glanville, apparently:
https://twitter.com/jsimpsonDC/status/1803072927803359284
A new judge is just the short term fix for Glanville’s repeated bungling. The real question is how he made it all the way to Chief Justice without knowing simple things like the difference between civil and criminal contempt or when it’s okay to have secret conversations with witnesses in your chambers. That’s never, by the way.
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 [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.