Fulton County Superior Court Judge Paige Reese Whitaker’s simmering frustration with Assistant District Attorney Adriane Love boiled over after lunch when Love appeared to misrepresent how she planned to use a social media post that was entered into evidence in front of the jury.
The judge in the YSL case is finally FED UP
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Judge Whitaker goes off on the state and storms out of the courtroom to consider the defenses mistrial motion pic.twitter.com/rb0Q7RMFVk
Attorneys for Young Thug aka Jeffrey Williams, then entered its latest motion for a mistrial. While the motion was eventually denied, Judge Whitaker left prosecutors with an earful before storming back into her chambers.
Judge Whitaker – who is the case’s third judge – denied the mistrial motion because the testimony in question was not “that big of a deal.” But “continued prosecutorial misconduct could eventually be the death knell for the longest running criminal trial in Georgia history,” she added.