The YSL Trial’s New Judge Just Recused Herself, Too
The RICO trial against alleged YSL members is about to have its third judge in three days. Judge Shukura L. Ingram has now recused herself from the case, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported July 17, citing an improper relationship between a defendant and one of her former deputies. Ingram was assigned to the case on July 15 after Judge Ural Glanville, the original judge, was recused over a scrutinized meeting with prosecutors and a witness.
The relationship at the center of Ingram’s recusal was between Christian Eppinger, who faces 15 counts in the YSL case, and Akeiba Stanley, then a deputy in the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. Eppinger’s case has been severed from the broader YSL trial, while Stanley was arrested and fired in June 2023. Judge Ingram noted that Stanley had been assigned to her courtroom for six months, and could be called as a future witness in the YSL case, meaning Ingram would have to preside over her testimony. “This may undermine the public’s confidence in the impartiality of the proceedings,” Ingram wrote in her order of recusal.
BREAKING: Judge Shukura Ingram has recused from the YSL/Young Thug case over the incident involving Christian Eppinger and a courthouse deputy.
— Jozsef Papp (@JozsefPapp_) July 17, 2024
Ingram said the deputy arrested was responsible and assigned to her courtroom for six months. @ajc pic.twitter.com/8EBBsV3eYE
So, the trial will soon be assigned to yet another new judge. And attorneys for Young Thug (born Jeffery Williams), one of six defendants in the main case, have already filed a new motion for a mistrial following Judge Glanville’s recusal. “Mr. Williams is grateful that the reviewing court agreed with him and entered the order recusing and disqualifying Judge Glanville from presiding over Mr. Williams’s case,” his attorney, Brian Steel, told Vulture. “We look forward to proceeding with a trial judge who will fairly and faithfully follow the law.” Amid the recusals, jurors have not heard new testimony since June 17, in what is already the longest trial in Georgia history.
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