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Update: Thursday, April 3, 2025, 4:15 EST: Judge Paige Reese Whittaker has denied the D.A.’s motion to revoke Young Thug’s probation, reports Shaddi Abusaid of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
On April 2, the state of Georgia filed a motion in Fulton County Superior Court to revoke the probation of Young Thug. The artist born Jeffrey Williams was released from jail in October 2024 after securing a plea deal that ended the RICO trial of the Atlanta rapper and his YSL associates; Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis now believes that Thug has violated the terms of his 15-year-probation, and has asked the court for him to be returned into custody, according to documents reviewed by The FADER.
The request hinges around postings from Young Thug’s Twitter account. The first message allegedly contained an image of Fulton County investigator Marissa Viverito with the caption calling her the “biggest liar in the DA office”; the second tweet was a reposting of a fan account containing the message “all my homies hate Viverito.”
Though the tweets were quickly deleted, Willis’s office claims that they were up long enough to elicit “thousands of comments and retweets, many of which included direct threats to Investigator Viverito and her family.” The postings, Willis claims, are “part of a calculated campaign of intimidation, harassment, and misinformation designed to undermine the legal process.” On Wednesday evening, Thug posted a new tweet denying that he made “[threats] to people.
“I’m a good person,” Thug wrote. “I would never condone anyone threatening anyone or definitely participate in threatening anyone. I’m all about peace and love.”
Brian Steel, Thug’s attorney, formally responded in court to the state’s motion on Thursday morning. Asking the court to deny the prosecutions motion, Steel argued that the state had not violated the terms of his probation. “This motion is baseless,” Steel told the New York Times in a statement. “While intimidation and threats of violence are never appropriate, Jeffery Williams has done nothing wrong. We look forward to seeking a dismissal of this petition.”