{"id":5075,"date":"2025-04-04T08:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T08:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/young-thugs-probation-wont-be-revoked-over-tweet-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T08:13:54","slug":"young-thugs-probation-wont-be-revoked-over-tweet-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/young-thugs-probation-wont-be-revoked-over-tweet-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Thug’s Probation Won’t Be Revoked Over Tweet, Judge Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n

\n\tA<\/span> Fulton County judge has declined to revoke Young Thug\u2018s probation after Atlanta prosecutors pushed for his imprisonment over a social media post the rapper made calling a government investigator \u201cthe biggest liar,\u201d according to court documents filed on Thursday (April 3).<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Judge Paige Reese Whitaker decided in the rapper\u2019s favor, in a footnote to her decision, she added, \u201cWhile the Court does not find that the cited social media post rises to the level of a violation of Defendant\u2019s probation, it may be prudent for Defendant to exercise restraint regarding certain topics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThug (real name Jeffery Lamar Williams) pleaded guilty last year on felony gang accusations stemming from his \u201cYSL\u201d group after being imprisoned for two years amid a prolonged legal process. He was ultimately sentenced to probation, avoiding the life sentence he would have faced if convicted following a trial.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe judge\u2019s Thursday decision followed a flurry of activity in the case this week. On Wednesday (April 2), the Fulton County District Attorney\u2019s office asked the judge to revoke Thug\u2019s probation over his Tuesday (April 1) post on X (formerly Twitter) in which he shared an image of Marissa Viverito along with a caption calling her \u201cthe biggest liar in the DA\u2019s office\u201d (seemingly a reference to her testimony in an unrelated gang case). The DA\u2019s office argued Thug had demonstrated \u201ca blatant disregard for the law, the safety of witnesses, and the integrity of judicial proceedings\u201d with the post, adding that it had been part of \u201ca calculated campaign of intimidation\u201d leading to posts by others that revealed Viverto\u2019s home address and made death threats against District Attorney Fani Willis.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a response filed on Thursday, Thug\u2019s attorney Brian Steel <\/strong>argued that the rapper\u2019s statement about Viverto did not violate the terms of his probation: \u201cMr. Williams can admit to all of the allegations alleged and still not have violated any term of his probationary sentence,\u201d Steel wrote, adding that his client also could not be held responsible for the follow-up posts made by others.<\/p>\n

\n\tRepresentatives for Thug and the DA\u2019s office did not immediately respond to Billboard<\/em>\u2018s requests for comment on the judge\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Fulton County judge has declined to revoke Young Thug\u2018s probation after Atlanta prosecutors pushed for his imprisonment over a social media post the rapper made calling a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[423,5359,5365,351,1886,5360,916,1094],"class_list":["post-5075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-judge","tag-probation","tag-revoked","tag-rules","tag-thugs","tag-tweet","tag-wont","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}