OA 1047

An episode of Opening Arguments released 2024-07-04 in which Thomas Smith and Matt Cameron interview Ashleigh Merchant about how she defended Young Thug attorney, Brian Steel for an illegal contempt order from Georgia judge Ural Glanville made in response to Steel refusing to ignore an illegal ex parte meeting the judge had during the YSL Records racketeering trial.

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• Pub date: 2024-07-04
• Patreon: link

Description

OA1047

We continue our coverage of the contempt hearing against Young Thug attorney Brian Steel with a very special guest! Attorney Ashleigh Merchant is not only the president of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, but most recently known for her work in seeking to recuse Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis from the Trump RICO case. Attorney Merchant provides her impressions of the YSL RICO trial and why GACDL’s has to have a special “strike force” to defend attorneys in contempt matters before giving us the play-by-play on her cameo appearance in the dramatic conclusion to the hearing which we covered in Part I yesterday.

YSL Trial Day 88, Fox 5 Atlanta (full video)

Full 56-page transcript of ex parte hearing with Judge Glanville, Fulton County DAs, and witness Kenneth Copeland held June 10, 2024

Ashleigh Merchant’s bio page from the Merchant Law Firm website

*this is a free post, since it is only going to be charged on the GG Patreon!

See also

• Opening Arguments
• List of Opening Arguments episodes
• YSL Records racketeering trial

External links

• bk4, reboil.com