UPDATED 6/12, 6:05 p.m. ET: Per courts reporter Meghann Cuniff, Brian Steel was granted bond as his appeal is pending.
"The Georgia Supreme Court granted his emergency motion and he will not have to report to jail on Friday," Cuniff tweeted on Wednesday.
UPDATED 6/10, 8:15 a.m. ET: Brian Steel was sentenced by Judge Ural Glanville to spend 20 days in Fulton County Jail, served on weekends only, for criminal contempt. He'll begin serving that time this Friday, June 14.
"Steel asked the judge to allow him to serve that time at the Cobb County Jail, where Young Thug is being held, and not at the Fulton County Jail, which Glanville said he would consider," the Washington Post reports.
Law & Crime editor Cathy Russon tweeted that Steel wants to "spend those weekends with #YoungThug in jail so he can continue to prepare his case."
Veteran court reporter Meghann Cuniff noted that Colette Resnik Steel—wife and law partner of Brian Steel—quickly filed a motion for bond.
See original story below.
Young Thug's lawyer Brian Steel has been held in contempt and arrested after he refused to disclose a source related to the rapper's ongoing RICO trial.
On Monday, Judge Ural Glanville took Steel into custody when he denied requests to explain how he heard about a secret meeting between Glanville, prosecutors, and key witness Kenneth Copeland. According to Judge Glanville, Steel managed to obtain information from the conversation, which ultimately violated court rules.
Glanville warned Steel several times that he would hit him with contempt before he eventually gave in.
"I'm going to give you five minutes. If you don't tell me who it is, I'm going to put you in contempt," the judge said.
Steel told Glanville he didn't "need five minutes." Glanville asked him to answer the question once more following a court recess, but the lawyer wasn't budging, which led to his arrest.
"Mr. Steel, I'm going to ask you again. I need you to tell me how you got this information. This is so sacrosanct, to have a conversation in my chambers parroted to you," Glanville stated before Steel motioned for a mistrial that later led to him being taken into custody. The motion was swiftly denied.
Steel returned to the courtroom about an hour later, and Glanville told him he'd be going to jail in the evening if he didn't reveal how he got the information from that secret meeting. Young Thug's trial has been going on for 17 months now and is already considered the longest trial in the state of Georgia.
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