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rahimnathwani

There was a recent case in the US where:

1. The judge had a secret meeting with the prosecution.

2. The defence attorney found out about it, and challenged the judge about it.

3. The judge demanded to know how the defence attorney found out.

4. When the defence attorney refused to say, the judge ordered the attorney to be jailed for contempt of court.

https://www.billboard.com/pro/young-thug-trial-judge-denies-...

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Yes and its a big story in the news and everyone knows about it. The Judge is clearly corrupt and the state supreme court have already weighed in. It's pretty clearly an extraordinary situation.

"the state supreme court have already weighed in"

Can you say more about this? The last I read, the state supreme court has accepted the case about the attorney's 'contempt of court' charge, but has not:

- issued any opinion related to any of these issues, or

- accepted any case about the judge being corrupt, recusing himself etc.

Did I miss some news?

Maybe I'm misremembering but did they not already get the defense attorney out of jail?

The defense attorney is out of jail pending the supreme court's decision on the contempt case.

This ruling has no bearing on the original case.

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