Georgia’s highest court has reversed a judge’s contempt ruling against a lawyer for rapper Young Thug who refused to tell the judge how he found out about a meeting between the judge, prosecutors and a prosecution witness.

Young Thug’s attorney Brian Steel won a ruling at the Georgia Supreme Court reversing a judge’s controversial ruling holding him in criminal contempt.

The Georgia Supreme Court has reversed an order of contempt against Young Thug's attorney Brian Steel by the former judge overseeing the YSL RICO trial that would have sent him to jail.