Younger Thug’s Lawyer Requests to Be a part of Diddy’s Protection Workforce

A lawyer who represented Younger Thug throughout a high-profile RICO trial final 12 months is requesting to affix Sean “Diddy” Combs’ authorized group.

Brian Metal, a Georgia-based lawyer, filed a request for permission to affix Combs’ protection. Metal made headlines in 2024 when he was given jail time after the decide in Younger Thug’s trial held him in contempt of court docket for refusing to disclose an data supply.

Metal referenced that in his court docket submitting submitted Tuesday, April 15, stating that “the decide wrongfully ordered that I reveal privileged data.”

“The misdemeanor contempt conviction was reversed by unanimous Supreme Court docket of Georgia,” Metal wrote in his submitting within the Southern District of New York, which was obtained by PEOPLE.

If granted permission by a decide, Metal would be part of a high-profile protection group led by Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos.

Combs is at present slated to go on trial in Might following a September 2024 indictment that charged with music mogul with intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. Since then, he has been charged in superseding indictments with further counts.

The Dangerous Boy Data founder has pleaded not responsible to all expenses.

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Combs has been in behind bars on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn since his arrest, with completely different judges all citing considerations of potential witness tampering as a purpose to disclaim his bail.

Younger Thug, whose actual title is Jeffery Williams, pleaded responsible to drug expenses, gun expenses and one gang cost in October 2024, marking the tip of the longest felony trial within the historical past of Georgia, in response to studies from WSB-TV, Rolling Stone and ABC Information.

Williams was sentenced to 40 years — 5 years behind bars, 15 years probation and 20 years in jail if he violates probation. He was launched following his plea after a decide gave him credit score for time served, per CNN and the Related Press.