The defense lawyers in the Fulton County District Attorney’s office, led by Fani Willis, are once again facing accusations of misconduct. This time, the allegations come from Attorney Keith Adams, who is representing rapper Young Thug, also known as Jeffery Williams. Adams has expressed concerns about Assistant District Attorney Adriane Love’s alleged “misrepresentations” regarding the admissibility of a 17-second video as evidence in the YSL trial. The specific context of the video remains unclear.
Love is the lead prosecutor in the RICO case against Williams and 27 others. In May 2022, Willis presented a comprehensive indictment, claiming that Williams is the kingpin of Young Slime Life (YSL), a street gang based in Atlanta that is associated with the Bloods.
Adams revealed during the trial that Love let the judge know that people in the background of the video were only heard saying “yeah, yeah, yeah.” Adams instead pushed back on that narrative though, instead revealing that said individuals could be heard saying things such as “I’m going to tell a lie on God” and “snitching b*****.”
“If she wins the motion, ultimately, she wins. But you don’t do it standing there, three feet from you, in your face, and lying to the court. And that’s what she did, she knew what she was doing and it’s not right,” Adams said.
Glanville admitted that Love’s details regarding the video were not completely precise. However, unlike Adams, he refrained from directly accusing her of deceiving the court.
“What you did tell me, Ms. Love, wasn’t the entirety of what was purportedly on [the video.] It did have other statements on it. It’s different if you had told me, ‘Judge, there’s statements on there. Probably need to listen for yourself.’ Not just ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah,’” he said in court.
Love responded by saying “When Mr. Adams just read those series of things that he read, half of what he said, I didn’t catch. The part that I did catch and remember is the part I kept repeating just now, ‘snitching b*****,’ and I didn’t even recall that that part was there. What I did know was that the relevant speaker and the relevant portion was Mr. Williams,” she told the court.
Glanville issued a cautionary message to both the defense and the prosecution in response to the assertion that certain comments and requests made to the court were not genuine legal motions or requests, but rather targeted at a personal level.
“What I am going to just advise everyone to kind of relook is what you tell each other. What you tell me, because there have been times where I have not received, I would consider, what is accurate information; let me just put it that way. And I’m not trying to attribute dishonesty to any party, but I have to rely…all courts have to rely upon counsel for their representation, so if you can’t remember what it is, just tell me that,” he said.
Rep. Mesha Mainor has now officially filed a lawsuit against Willis, which “alleges that Willis, Commissioner Marvin Arrington, the Fulton County Ethics Board, and the county itself were derelict in its duties to properly litigate a criminal case in which Mainor was repeatedly stalked by a former friend and political associate.”
Mainor, who clinched a significant win in the 2020 election from the voters of House District 56 in Atlanta’s Democratic stronghold, made waves last July when she switched parties and officially joined the Republican Party. She cited her discomfort with the Democrats’ “left-wing radicalism, lawlessness, and prioritization of illegal aliens over Americans” as the reason for her decision.
Mainor’s legal complaint, filed on April 2 in Fulton County Superior Court, claims that she recruited Corwin Monson as a campaign volunteer in January 2019. The lawsuit portrays them as acquaintances for several years with many mutual friends. Monson allegedly promised Mainor that he could assist her in winning the election, but just a month later, she was compelled to dismiss him due to his “disorderly, confrontational conduct,” as per the lawsuit cited by Newsweek.
This reportedly led to multiple incidents of stalking in various forms, such as Monson appearing uninvited at campaign or church gatherings, loitering near her home, making calls from different numbers and leaving voicemails, and even proposing to her in front of her young children at her residence, the lawsuit alleges.