I don’t believe so. Just the fact that there is a romantic relationship going on, is an appearance of impropriety regardless of when the relationship began, It becomes much worse if it started before was even hired, which appears to be the case. The fact that they both lied about the relationship to the court, should result in disbarment. We’ll see if that happens, or if they get a bye because of their skin tone.
“As Holloway explained, the state senators are “going to figure out just what happened here in terms of prosecutorial misconduct” and see if they “can use their power as half of the legislature to effect change.” He believes they can potentially employ “the lawmaking process” to “rein in rogue prosecutors,” “enact laws that tighten the rules about conflicts of interest,” or “make it a crime… to use nepotism when hiring contractors.”
Seems like this should’ve already been something in place.