Judge refuses to send young bugs to prison about a viral post that caused the setback

Atlanta (AP) – A Judge in Atlanta rejected the request of the prosecutors to revoke Young Thug’s trial period and sent him in prison. But the judge warned him about his use on social media after his viral post caused an online setback against the district attorney’s office. The Grammy-winning rapper pleaded guilty to gang, drug and gun charges in October and was released from prison. The district attorney of Fulton County, Fani Willis, said in a court that he filed on Wednesday that he “actions that directly threaten the safety of witnesses and prosecutors, continuous lawsuits in the jeopardy and immediately revoked the trial period.” Paige Reese Whitaker, Judge of the Fulton County High Court, said in an order on Thursday that his Willis’ filing and an answer by the Young Thug’s attorney had reviewed and refused to recall his trial. “Although the court does not find that the cited social media post is rising to the level of a violation of the defendant’s trial, it may be wise for defendant to exercise restriction on certain topics,” Whitaker added to her order of one paragraph. Willis said that Young Thug reposes a social media post that includes a photo of an investigator in the district attorney with a caption saying that the investigator is “the biggest liar in the DA’s office.” The post “quickly became viral and looked more than 2 million times, with thousands of remarks and retweets.” The investigator’s home address and some of her parents were publicly placed, and some posts included threats for the investigator and her family, the filing states. One post threatened the assassination of Willis. “I don’t make threats for people to be a good person,” Young Thug posted on the social platform X on Wednesday night. “I would never condone anyone who threatens someone or definitely participates in threatening someone. I am about peace and love. ‘ Brian Steel, a Young Thug lawyer, said in a court that the allegations of prosecutors are misleading and that the rapper did nothing to violate his probationary period. Young Thug, whose first name is Jeffery Williams, was charged with more than two dozen other people in May 2022, who is accused of violating Georgia’s Anti-Retchete Act. According to the indictment, the rapper set up a violent street gang that committed several murders, shooting and car jackets over about a decade and promoted his activities in songs and on social media. Whitaker imposed him a total sentence of 40 years. The first five years would be served in prison, but it was served until time. Then he has been on trial for 15 years. Eventually, a ‘back loaded’ 20 years imprisonment will be served afterwards if he complies with all the terms of his probationary period. If the judge had granted the recall of the probationary period, the 20 -year imprisonment would have come into effect. Prosecutors say the investigator whose photo Young Thug is repositioning is currently a witness in a ‘multi-defendant gang murder’. A judge explicitly said during a hearing that the investigator should not be shown on television while testifying, their filing rang. A blogger posted the photo of the investigating officer on social media with the heading: ‘She doesn’t want to be displayed on the screen? Well, here she is, “and the young thug said prosecutors wrote. Young Thug’s “continued association with individuals who are actively involved in intimidation of evidence, threats of violence and impediment of justice” is a violation of the terms of his trial, prosecutors wrote. His lawyer wrote that there is no suggestion that the rapper was aware of the judge’s order not to show the investigator, and it is not a violation of a probationary period to post an image on social media, along with the opinion that the investigator is “false.” None of the “direct threats” cited by prosecutors is attributed to Young Thug. The trial for Young Thug and five others began in November 2023 after it took almost ten months to put a jury. The rapper and three other defendants pleaded guilty in October. In November, a jury found the two remaining defendants in the hearing that he was not guilty of rocket, murder and gang-related charges, although one of them was convicted on a charge of the gun. Young Thug Cowrote The hit “This is America” ​​with Childish Gambino, which became the first hip-hop cut to win the Song of the Year Grammy in 2019.