Young Thug and YSL's RICO case is at a bit of a crossroads right now, as the defense is trying to recuse Judge Ural D. Glanville from the case due to alleged witness tampering. In fact, even Georgia's former chair of the Judicial Qualifications Committee, Lester Tate, blasted the court proceedings over this issue. Specifically, Tate's critique has to do with how the case is on hold until another judge's ruling on Glanville's potential recusal. Judge Rachel Krause, the other judge in question, refused to recuse herself from this legal dispute in a Tuesday (July 9) court order, since defendants questioned her lack of bias and demanded her recusal due to Glanville's $2,000 donation to Krause's re-election campaign.
"The only consideration for the Court is whether Judge Glanville’s campaign donation to this Court’s re-election campaign warrants recusal," Krause wrote of this Young Thug trial development. "The Georgia Supreme Court has held that the mere fact of a campaign contribution to a judge -– even from a party to the case -– does not warrant recusal where the contribution was not exceptionally large. […] This Court does not relish [this] task, but ‘[i]t is as much the duty of a judge not to grant the motion to recuse when the motion is legally insufficient as it is to recuse when the motion is meritorious.’"
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"Given the dumpster fire the YSL trial has become, I’m really shocked she has not recused herself," Tate told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution of these remarks from Krause about the Young Thug trial. "Even if the letter of the law allows it, to benefit the judiciary and protect its image to the public, the better practice would be for her to voluntarily recuse."
However, another former Judicial Qualifications Committee chair, Chuck Boring, has a different perspective. "No judge would want this position and have to decide this sticky issue," he noted. "However, it is her job and it appears she is not taking the easy way out and just recusing when legally it is not necessitated." And with that, the longest trial in Georgia history has to wait a little longer to resume, as Judge Krause or another judge still have to decide if Glanville will recuse himself in the Young Thug case.
