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A lengthy pause in Georgia's longest criminal trial ever could soon end — if Judge Shukura Ingram wants it to.

The former prosecutor, who is nearing the end of her first six-year term, was tapped to oversee the YSL RICO trial on Monday after Judge Ural Glanville was ordered off the case.

Now, Ingram must decide if and how the case involving the rapper Young , also known as Jeffrey Williams, and several co-defendants should proceed.
 
Judge Paige Reese Whitaker has been assigned to handle the case. Whitaker is a former Fulton County prosecutor, who also worked at the state Attorney General’s Office. She has been a judge in Fulton County since 2017.

Ingram said because her courthouse deputy had a romantic relationship with a co-defendant in the case, Christian Eppinger, it could create an “appearance of impropriety.” She issued an order on Wednesday recusing herself and asking that the case be reassigned.

https://www.hastingstribune.com/ap/...cle_95143be2-f2d9-5b2a-96a6-63f741b64ccf.html

 
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Young ’s criminal trial in Atlanta is going through a lot of judges.

Hours after Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shukura Ingram recused herself - less than a day after she’d been assigned to it - Judge Paige Reese Whitaker was named the trial’s new jurist.

Ingram had been assigned to the case after another Fulton Superior Court judge, Rachel Krause, ruled the trial’s first judge - Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville - should be recused.

On Wednesday, Ingram said she could not preside over the trial of because a former deputy assigned to her courtroom, Akeiba Koren Stanley, had allegedly had an inappropriate affair with Christian Eppinger. On June 8, 2023, Eppinger was severed from Young ’s original criminal proceeding.

Ingram wrote that Stanley had been assigned to her courtroom at the time of the alleged relationship.

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Published: Jul. 17, 2024 at 11:52 AM EDT|Updated: 23 hours ago

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Glanville’s contempt ruling against Steel has since been suspended by the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Glanville has since released that meeting’s timeline and transcript.
 
@cathyrusson

Tomorrow's #YSL #YoungThug hearing will be in the same Glanville courtroom, but with Judge Whitaker presiding. Our photographer will be behind the camera and we will bring you the hearing live. No defendants will be in attendance. I can't wait to see what the next steps are!


3:53 PM · Jul 18, 2024
 
Judge Paige Whitaker has taken the bench for the status hearing.

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Right now, Judge Whitaker is asking each defense attorney to introduce themselves.


Here are Brian Steel and Keith Adams introducing themselves.


Whitaker said they want to be efficient with the jury's time and need to sort everything they need to sort out before the jury is brought back.


Whitaker is going through the motions that Brian Steel has filed on behalf of Young , she won't take any motions up today, she just wants to make sure she is not missing anything.


Unlike Judge Glanville, Judge Whitaker has moved the computer screen so it's hard to see her face from where the media is sitting.


Whitaker repeats that she doesn't want to consider any argument today, primarily because the defendants are not in. Steel is trying to inform her of what happened with Copeland still testifying past June 14.


Careton Matthews said the bond motion is the only motions he has filed for Marquavius Huey.

Max Schardt explained to the judge the "Harvey rule", for anyone who doesn't know is basically that any motion file applies to everyone unless they specifically opt out.Schardt also said there should be a hearing to deal with Copeland's testimony and the interrogation videos.


It does sound like Whitaker plans to stick around in this case.


"I've not been following this case until now," Whitaker said.


Whitaker clearly operates differently than Judge Glanville and it sounds like she doesn't want to make rulings "as we go" and wants to make decisions ahead of time and testimony, evidence and other stuff.


Bruce Harvey asks for a timeframe to allow defense attorneys to file any additional motions.


Whitaker said if attorneys are contemplating filing anything, to do so by end of next week.Jury won't come back until at least August 5, Whitaker said.


She wants attorneys to file any motion by Tuesday, July 23 and wants the state to response, if needed, by Friday.Plans to deal with the motions on the week of July 29.


Bruce Harvey is telling Whitaker that since Glanville announced proceedings were halted back on July 1, he has received emails and notifications of his other cases.


Doug Weinstein said they are filing motions by Tuesday.


Adriane Love said they will file motions before Tuesday of next week as well.


Love said they are working through determining the rulings that were made by Glanville orally and make sure it is in writing so Judge Whitaker can know about it.


Love also mentions the exhibits list and making sure they are all on the same page on that. Whitaker seems to hint that they could do this outside of court, but seems like Love doesn't want to do that.


Whitaker said her court reporter is retiring in a week and will have a new court report next week.


Whitaker said she is going to ask Glanville's court reporter to work on the transcripts and get a list of exhibits.


Whitaker said the week of July 29 will be spend arguing motions.


Whitaker plans to hold trial proceedings from 8:45 a.m. and go through 6 p.m. but hasn't decided if it will be all five days. "When I say 8:45, I mean 8:45," Whitaker said.


Whitaker is going through some different things:- Food is allowed in the courtroom, but no snacking while trial is going on- Clothing for defendants needs to be addressed - Minimize disruption in court


"We won't be bored from here on out," Whitaker said about defendants wearing headphones and airpods while in court.


It sounds like none of the defense attorneys could come up with a good reason, so defendants won't be able to have headphones anymore.


Whitaker seems to want to limit disruption while witnesses are testifying (having argument while witnesses are on the stand), which Glanville tried to deal with but wasn't very efficient in doing so.


Whitaker just asked for a list of witnesses, with each count they are testifying about and what they might say.


Whitaker is addressing the fact that sometimes tempers have flared between attorneys and hopes this hiatus of proceedings have allowed them to cool down.


"The state has complied with its discovery obligation," Love told Whitaker.Whitaker said she assumed that all discovery had been exchanged.


Whitaker is encouraging attorneys to talk about the possibility of pleas.


Another hearing to take place on Tuesday at 8:45 a.m.


Correction: The hearing will take place July 30.

@JozsefPapp_
 
@cathyrusson

Next hearing is July 30 at 8:45am. They'll go Tues-Fri that week and try to tackle everything, if not it will continue into the next week without the jury until all outstanding motions and issues have been resolved. Judge Whitaker has set a court schedule of 8:45am - 6pm each day when the jury returns. She did say the 6pm might change since she doesn't yet know about possible daycare issues, etc.. with jury.


12:33 PM · Jul 19, 2024
 
@ThuggerDaily


Judge Whitaker also reminds everyone the door is still open for potential plea negotiations and encourages the sides to talk to each other.


12:29 PM · Jul 19, 2024






We will be back on Tuesday July 30th 8:45 AM, and every day going forward, going through all the pending motions

At the end of the week, the Judge will decide at that point if she will call back the Jury August 5th or if there's more work to be done.


12:33 PM · Jul 19, 2024
 

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