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ATLANTA – The YSL RICO trial of rapper Young Thug continues Monday, and after a week focused primarily on procedural issues, testimony is expected to resume.

This week, only defendants and lawyers were in the courtroom to receive motions and prepare documents.

The resumption of testimony will also include the testimony of Kenneth Copeland – better known as Lil Woody – who has been on the witness stand since the trial resumed after the previous judge, Ural Glanville, was removed from the case.

Woody, who was considered a key witness before the trial, has largely refused to answer questions from prosecutors, frequently telling them he cannot remember events in which he was allegedly involved, statements he made or things that happened in court this week.

It has become so much his calling card that he actually released a song called “I Don't Recall.”

Jurors returned to the courtroom earlier this month after a nearly two-month delay due to Judge Glanville's recuse. Judge Paige Reese Whitaker is now overseeing the case.

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Judge Glanville was dismissed after Young Thug's lawyers argued that he should no longer be overseeing the case, as a trial was scheduled for June 10 that was considered ex parte Meeting that became the subject of heated arguments during the trial.

In her order, Judge Rachel Krause, who presided over the recusal case, stated: “The Court has no doubt that Judge Glanville can and would continue to fairly decide this case even if the motions to recusal were denied. However, the 'need to maintain public confidence in the judicial system' supports the need to relieve Judge Glanville from further consideration of this case.”

The controversial private meeting resulted in Young Thug's lawyer, Brian Steel, being sentenced to 20 days in jail for contempt of court, but the sentence was overturned after the state Supreme Court granted him bail.

Steel was charged with contempt of court because he refused to reveal the source from which he learned of the ex parte meet.

Judge Glanville later released the transcript of the meeting with witness Kenneth Copeland, aka “Lil Woody.”

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Copeland was arrested on June 7 and charged with contempt of court after refusing to testify in court as part of an immunity agreement. A few days later, prosecutors in the judge's chambers shared an email sent to them by Copeland's lawyer, accusing them of targeting him by forcing him to testify. They also said his lawyer had threatened to withdraw from the case.

Prosecutors later told Copeland that if he continued to refuse to testify, he could be jailed until all of the defendants' cases were decided. He eventually did.

Copeland had a lawyer present at the meeting, but the lawyer was representing his usual lawyer, who was out of town. Steel accused the court of exercising “coercion” because no representative of his client was invited to the meeting.

The extraordinary turn of the case fascinated legal experts.