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.
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.