Young Thug, whose legal name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, is accused, with more than two dozen others, of conspiring to violate Georgia's anti-racketeering law and is also charged with drug, gun and gang crimes. Photo: Getty Images

Judge Rachel Krause, who heard recusal motions from Young Thug, removed Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville from the case. Glanville, who presided over the case in Atlanta for the past 18 months, was replaced by Judge Shukura Ingram

Krause said that she found nothing improper about Glanville’s meeting, but said she still ordered Glanville to be recused in order to preserve public trust.

Krause wrote that “the necessity of preserving the public’s confidence in the judicial system weighs in favor of excusing Judge Glanville” from the case.

Steel’s wife, Colette Resnik Steel, filed notice of an intent to appeal, and the Georgia Supreme Court granted him bond and an emergency motion to stay the order on June 12. The court agreed to hear Steel's case at a future time.

teel and another attorney have been representing the Atlanta rapper after prosecutors filed gang-related charges in a sweeping RICO indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, in 2022. Young Thug, whose legal name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, is accused, with more than two dozen others, of conspiring to violate Georgia's anti-racketeering law and is also charged with drug, gun and gang crimes. He is on trial with five of those indicted with him after some opted for plea deals and others were ordered to have separate trials.