Regarding the cell phone data that Merchant is presenting to the committee, I posted this on Tuesday responding to a FReeper who asked why the Senate committee wanted to question Ashleigh Merchant:
The defendant's attorney has to testify? What are they going to ask her?In my opinion, the Georgia Senate committee is subpoenaing Ashleigh Merchant to allow her to get into a public record the rest of the text messages that the Georgia DA prosecutors were objecting to in the Willis hearing last week.
Those text messages will then give the Senate committee the power to subpoena Bradley himself to testify to the misconduct of the Fulton County DA's office. The question will be whether Bradley thinks that lying to the Georgia Senate is worse than lying to the Fulton County Superior Court. Just how afraid of Willis is Bradley when he becomes the target of the Georgia Senate?
The domino after that is whether Wade, and then Willis, will keep up their stonewall in the state legislature or will they retreat and step down?
Once Merchant's texts are submitted into evidence with the Senate committee, it will be impossible for Judge McAfee to ignore the entirety of it in his courtroom.
Despite the objections of Abbate, I don't see how McAfee can play dumb and not recognize the Senate's evidence along with his own. If he tries to put blinders on and hide behind the technicality that he can only consider evidence brought before him and nothing else, then I believe he will be committing political suicide if he has higher career ambitions.
-PJ
“Once Merchant’s texts are submitted into evidence with the Senate committee, it will be impossible for Judge McAfee to ignore the entirety of it in his courtroom.”
That’s good — taking a circuitous route to show the truth is very smart.
I watched the entire testimony. She must have spent hours and hours on her own time....finding back doors to get information.
The one phone call which was over heard...IMOW..."They're coming for us. Shut your mouth."