Young Thug ’s long and troubled racketeering trial appeared on the verge of dramatic mistrial yet again Monday as an Atlanta-based judge accused a chief prosecutor of either “purposefully” misleading the court or causing chaos through apparent disorganization. “It is baffling to me that somebody with the number of years of experience that you have, time after time after time, continues to seemingly, purposefully hide the ball to the extent you possibly can for as long as you possibly can,” Fulton County Judge Paige Reese Whitaker told Chief Deputy District Attorney Adriane Love after one of Young Thug’s lawyers demanded the mistrial based on the way a witness was handled. “I really don’t want to believe that it is purposeful, but honestly, after a certain number of times, you start to wonder how it could be anything but that — unless it’s just that you are so unorganized that you are throwing this case together as you try it.
” Whitaker got so heated that she called a recess to seemingly cool down and consider the mistrial motion in private. When she returned, she said the trial would continue, but she wasn’t letting anything slide. “I think my frustration was apparent a few minutes ago,” she said from the bench.
“I truly am struggling with whether all of this is purposeful, or this is just really poor lawyering on the part of members of the state’s team. Either way, it’s really unfortunate. If it’s something other than poor lawyering, it’.
