April 17, 2025
Metal was the lead legal professional within the Younger Thug RICO trial
Younger Thug’s legal professional, Brian Metal, is becoming a member of the protection workforce for Sean “Diddy” Combs’s upcoming federal trial.
Famed court docket reporter Meghann Cuniff posted the information on her social media account and included the paperwork that the legal professional filed April 15 within the U.S. Southern District Courtroom of New York.
Right here’s one thing I didn’t anticipate to put in writing:
Younger Thug’s lawyer Brian Metal has joined Sean “Diddy’ Combs’ prison protection workforce. pic.twitter.com/1PD3g3ksr4
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) April 15, 2025
Metal grew to become a family title throughout the Younger Thug RICO trial, the longest prison trial in Georgia historical past.
In Metal’s movement to be included on Diddy’s protection workforce, he admitted to being held in contempt throughout Thug’s trial. Metal was held in contempt by Decide Ural Glanville after he refused to reveal a supply who instructed him about an ex parte dialog that came about earlier than court docket that day, Fox 5 reported. The choose was faraway from the case shortly after the incident.
The misdemeanor contempt conviction was reversed when, by means of an attraction by Metal, the Supreme Courtroom of Georgia issued a unanimous resolution within the legal professional’s favor.
“On June 10, 2024, I used to be held in contempt by a Superior Courtroom Decide in Fulton County, Georgia, in State of Georgia v. Jeffery Williams et al., Case Quantity 22SC 183 572, when the choose wrongfully ordered that I reveal privileged data.”
– Diddy’s new lawyer Brian Metal pic.twitter.com/4q0EOSxra9— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) April 15, 2025
Based on NPR, Younger Thug (actual title Jeffrey Williams) pleaded responsible on Oct. 31, 2024, after prosecutors requested that he be sentenced to 25 in jail and 20 on probation.
Fulton County Decide Paige Reese Whitaker sentenced the rapper to a complete sentence of 40 years, with him serving the primary 5 in jail. Nonetheless, Whitaker allowed him to go free when she commuted the 5 years resulting from being in custody for greater than 900 days after he was initially booked in Might 2022.
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