What on Earth Is Happening in the Young Thug Trial?

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🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has used Georgia’s RICO statute against everyone from public school teachers to environmental protesters to a former President of the United States. This week we examine Willis's massive 88-page RICO indictment of rapper Young Thug and 27 other associates of YSL, the Atlanta record label which her office alleges is also operating as a violent street gang. Matt shakes his geriatric millennial first at the scourge of mumble rap before breaking down what has already become the longest criminal trial in Georgia history and the injustice of prosecutors using an artist’s lyrics against them in court.

Finally, we break down this month’s most listener-requested story: judge Ural Glanville’s inexplicable decision not only to secretly meet with a prosecutor and one of the state’s most important witnesses without defense counsel present, but to sentence Young Thug’s attorney to 20 days in jail simply for noticing that he wasn’t supposed to. What is going on here, and could there possibly be a good explanation for it?

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0:00.0	I hate the Supreme Court! the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.
0:23.0	This is not a First Amendment thing.
0:26.0	I printed out a sign especially for him using his favorite font, Geramand.
0:30.0	Who has a favorite font? I read on the internet that it's not against the law for me to go to the bathroom while the
0:37.0	Fest and seatbelt sign is on, so...
0:39.0	Seatbelt sign is on.
0:40.0	But is it against, Matt Cameron,
0:43.0	Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
0:47.0	This is episode one thousand forty-four.
0:49.0	I'm your host Thomas Smith.
0:50.0	That over there is Matt Cameron here for the Monday show. How you doing Matt?
0:55.1	Thomas, I've been spending the last couple of days listening to Atlanta Trap
0:58.3	Music and I have never felt older or whiter. I gotta tell you.
1:02.0	Well this is a safe space for old white people.
1:07.0	Unlike those other woke shows, we're allowed to be white here.
1:12.0	That's a joke. I don't want any listeners to think I'm serious about that. We already teased it, but we're going to talk about the young thug trial. Now keep in mind there's so much and we absolutely I think what we're going to do Matt over on
1:24.4	gavel-gavel is do a little like break from the Trump trial and do this
1:29.5	contempt thing probably not obviously the whole trial or whatever but like do that contempt
1:34.4	episode over there I think that's what we're planning now right it's something you got
1:38.3	to hear and it's three hours of I mean it's incredible and and also the lead up to it
1:41.7	but you know we haven't been into a Fulton County courthouse
1:44.6	in a little while.
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