Posted on 03/15/2024 7:21:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Fulton County, Ga., Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee made his decision on whether District Attorney Fani Willis can continue prosecuting Donald Trump and 18 other co-defendants on corruption charges.
McAfee ruled that Willis can continue to prosecute the former president and his co-defendants, but he has given the state multiple options to handle the case. All options involve Nathan Wade stepping away from the team.
Willis campaigned as an anti-corruption candidate in 2020 because accusations of sexual and financial wrongdoing surrounded her predecessor, Paul Howard. She declared to an interviewer that the people of Fulton County “deserve a DA that won't have sex with his employees [and] won't put money in their own pocket.”
McAfee ordered a hearing into Willis’ conflicts of interest after reports surfaced in January that Willis was allegedly carrying on an affair with Nathan Wade, an attorney she hired as a special counsel on the case. Despite his lack of experience with RICO cases, Willis paid him more than more experienced attorneys for his work.
Willis also allegedly dispatched Wade to meet with Biden administration officials about the Trump prosecution.
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The female Judge Cannon questioning the arbitrary nature of the prosecution in the Florida documents case yesterday apparently has two more testicles than this guy
“evidence legally insufficient to support a finding of an actual conflict of interest”
There were seven other reasons to disqualify, the coward judge did not address those.
The judge now has opposition. A Black lawyer. He can’t possibly win the election. Not in that county.
This is the judge’s election opponent. And, yes.
Black privilege?
I never suggested he would. I would subpoena him with the expectation that he'd be a hostile witness.
I would just want to sit the guy down for a deposition and have him answer a whole boatload of questions related to the case -- specifically about his dealings in Washington with various Federal offices that have no jurisdiction in a Georgia case.
PATHETIC JUDGE......they both LIED UNDER OATH!
If you are black, you. CAn get away with MURDER BECAUSE WHITES ARE PETRIFIED THEY WILL BURN THEIR HOUSE AND CITY DOWN!
This.
Its why i think that 15 year old criminal in Missouri that beat that poor girls head on the pavement will get away with a slap on the wrist.
Our justice system is a joke.
"...the Court finds that the Defendants failed to meet their burden of proving that the District Attorney acquired an actual conflict of interest in this case through her personal relationship and recurring travels with her lead prosecutor..."
The bold emphasis is mine.
I recall the defense arguing that the standard for dismissal was only the "appearance" of a conflict of interest. They didn't have to prove an "actual" conflict of interest.
I can't believe the judge would make such an error on the law.
There is also the minor problem of perjury that the judge allowed them to skate on.
Let me know if anyone thinks I have this wrong.
Different states have different appellate rules - some places for example allow appeals only after a trial court’s case is concluded. Some permit them of any order. It sounds like Georgia is kind of in between the two, requiring the judge’s permission to appeal as the case is in progress.
Also I can’t speak to Georgia’s standards on appeal, but in New York an appeal like this, which doesn’t go to the merits of the case, is reviewed on appeal only for abuse of discretion - a very difficult bar to meet. Under such a standard an appeals court can believe the trial court to be wrong and still affirm the decision.
Yes.
Another nuanced,convoluted untie the knots ruling. Doesn’t matter since this case against Trump will fail just like all the rest. The stink on Fani will remain radioactive going forward.
Split the baby in half.
Perhaps Fanny would hire him back at the DA's office, though. He could fetch coffee for her and answer the phone when Wade calls.
Good point. In that case I more completely agree with the approach, although there would still be many hurdles to getting anything worthwhile from him, starting with the judge even allowing it.
This nonsensical ruling will ultimately buttress Trump’s claim that the justice system under democrat rule is totally corrupt and will resonante with those voters who have been similarly victimized. It will also grease the skids for an easy appeal should he be found guilty of the charges.
In McAfee’s other recent ruling, where he struck down 6 of the charges against Trump, in that decision, he left the prosecutors two options, either to re-write them in a manner more acceptable to the judge, OR that he would be willing to approve their plea to the appeals court. That is something that Trump’s team should be able to cite in their own request for appeal, to show that since he has already stated he would be willing to allow the prosecution to appeal before the end of the trial, he should allow the defense to as well, albeit on a different matter.
Corruption like no other.
That diaper wearing skank is human filth.
Dirty, corrupt, dishonest, nasty, unwanted whore.
The judge deems that removing Wade (and/or Willis) is sufficient to address this appearance of a conflict.
RE: This nonsensical ruling will ultimately buttress Trump’s claim that the justice system under democrat rule is totally corrupt
BOTH should remove themselves <-— THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE DECISION.
It makes no sense to say ( as the judge’s bizzare decision implies) that one is compromised and corrupted without the other being compromised and corrupted as well.
America has a very convoluted justice system where a President is too mentally feeble to stand trial, yet is still considered mentally able to be commander in chief of the country.
This is where we are today.
More liberal RAT LAWFARE corruption. We’re not in America anymore, Toto.
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