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Attorney-Client Privilege Isn't The Only Relationship YSL Defendants Are Having With The Law

What happened to keeping business and pleasure separate?

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gavel-3575414_640A new development in the trial to determine if Young Stoner Life (YSL) is a murderous drug dealing gang or a music group: defense counsel is in hot water after allegedly letting his client use his laptop to send messages on Instagram during jury selection. And, on brand with pretty much every other article written about this suit, things only got more ridiculous from there.

The judge initially issued a temporary restraining order to block the search of the attorney’s laptop seized by Sheriff’s deputies last month. A special master will now handle the dispute over the laptop. But the judge also severed the attorney’s client, Christian Eppinger, from the trial and that’s where things got more weird.

From Law360:

Eppinger, accused of racketeering and participating in a slew of crimes, had allegedly used Johnson’s laptop during jury selection to communicate with others on Instagram, leading to the computer being seized in court on May 31 by deputies from the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. A Fulton County deputy was then arrested and fired on June 2, when she was charged in connection with her allegedly inappropriate relationship with Eppinger, who is in custody pending the outcome of the criminal case.

I get that this is a high profile case and all, but for the love of God can this thing be normal just for once? Between the contemptuous strip club wings and apparent drug deals in the middle of trial, a deputy making a little too nice with a defendant feels like the commercial break that lets you relax a bit before the shenanigans pick back up with force. Moving forward, communicating with your conspirators via Instagram is a little too… leaves a papertrail-ey? What happened to communicating by bundling up the orders in lyrics? At least that has the plausible deniability of being art.

Young Thug Trial Atty’s Laptop Fight Goes To Special Master

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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