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YSL RICO Prosecutors So Bad Judge Mandates Tutorial On How To Do Their Jobs

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spotlight on gavelJudge Whitaker is tidying up loose ends before the jury returns on Monday. She finally got to the small matter of Judge Glanville’s secret meeting with the prosecution and Mr. Copeland where they tried to bully him into testifying against Jeffrey Williams & co. Brian Steel decided that this is one of the hills he was willing to die on for his client, and rightly so — the whole situation is bonkers. Instead of declaring a mistrial, Judge Whitaker ruled that it wasn’t actually as bad as the defense is making it out to be. Still bad enough for the prosecution to have some consequences, but they aren’t really that dire:

And while this is a better response to the prosecution’s fuck-up than Glanville acting as if it never happened, something feels very wrong about this not being a clear miscarriage of justice because the defense’s lawyer was really good at sleuthing:

Georgia prosecutors, remember: If you try to violate a defendant’s civil rights in a high-profile case and get caught, expect a new judge and being sentenced to prosecutorial CLE credits. Let that be a lesson to you!

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.

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