As Younger Thug fights for his freedom towards RICO costs which were criticized for prosecutorial overreach, Chief Choose Ural Glanville has punished a potential juror who left the nation by assigning a 30-page essay on jury responsibility.

Through the Atlanta Journal-Structure, Juror No. 64 defined in a January twelfth look earlier than the court docket that she had traveled to the Dominican Republic on a enterprise journey. She mentioned that she emailed a duplicate of her journey itinerary to jury providers final week, believing she was in compliance along with her duties.

When No. 64 didn’t seem for jury responsibility on January ninth, Glanville despatched Fulton County deputies to her house. “I didn’t actually know I used to be in violation till the sheriff confirmed up,” she mentioned. “I assumed I used to be following instructions.”

Glanville discovered the juror in contempt of court docket for failure to seem for necessary jury providers, which carries a sentence of as much as 20 days in jail and a effective as much as $1,000. With the intention to “purge herself of this contempt,” the choose, who just like the juror is Black, ordered her to write down an essay about Georgia’s historical past of jury service.

“Years in the past, individuals who seemed like us couldn’t serve on juries,” Glanville mentioned. “It was prohibited.” The essay, which shall be run via plagiarism-checking software program, have to be formatted in APA model and cite 10 main sources and 10 secondary sources. It’s due in three weeks.

Glanville served within the Military Reserves and holds the rank of Brigadier Normal, and his habits all through the trial has been characterised by a stern, maybe even rigid management model. Final yr, he denied Younger Thug’s request for a bond, calling the musician a “hazard to the group.”

Younger Thug has been accused of masterminding a legal gang beneath the Younger Slime Life banner, whereas Thugger’s  legal professionals have argued that YSL is just a music label. Final month, YSL artist Gunna pleaded responsible to a racketeering cost and was launched from jail.