I have no doubt - I would disqualify her. I would also send her to the Bar for investigation and ask for a special prosecutor to investigate how she has handled this. You can’t have prosecutors doing this https://t.co/1kFeHc8WTH
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) March 2, 2024
Always liked Greta. She agrees with me more often that not.Foreverconservative said:I have no doubt - I would disqualify her. I would also send her to the Bar for investigation and ask for a special prosecutor to investigate how she has handled this. You can’t have prosecutors doing this https://t.co/1kFeHc8WTH
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) March 2, 2024
He is tasked with making findings of fact and conclusions of law in a very grey area of law in Georgia on a spotty evidentiary record.whatthehey78 said:
Trial is over. Closing arguments done. Why no ruling from the Judge????????????
Many thanks!aggiehawg said:He is tasked with making findings of fact and conclusions of law in a very grey area of law in Georgia on a spotty evidentiary record.whatthehey78 said:
Trial is over. Closing arguments done. Why no ruling from the Judge????????????
He also has a huge trial starting next week that will last for awhile. My take is that if he was inclined toward keeping her and Wade on the case, he would rule quickly. Since he's taking two weeks he feels he has to be very thorough in justifying his decision. Reminder, there are two motions before the court, motion to disqualify the DA's office and a motion to dismiss.
I don't think he will dismiss in total. Let someone else make that determination.
stated yesterday at the beginning of the closing, McAfee just gave me the impression he'd seen enough of these two and had already determined they were full of crap and the appearance of conflict was already met, and really didn't need to reopen the evidentiary again because his burden of proof had already been met. And then after that disastrous closing performance by the state sealed the deal. He kept pushing back repeatedly against the state's parsing of the actual statute covering conflict. He'd seen enough and the state merely confirmed it. Wade for sure perjured himself multiple times already and now the waiter comes forward proving once again Wade and Bradley were both lying about not having spoken for almost two years, they are really toast. All three could be literally disbarred if he pushes the issue. I agree with Greta as well.aggiehawg said:He is tasked with making findings of fact and conclusions of law in a very grey area of law in Georgia on a spotty evidentiary record.whatthehey78 said:
Trial is over. Closing arguments done. Why no ruling from the Judge????????????
He also has a huge trial starting next week that will last for awhile. My take is that if he was inclined toward keeping her and Wade on the case, he would rule quickly. Since he's taking two weeks he feels he has to be very thorough in justifying his decision. Reminder, there are two motions before the court, motion to disqualify the DA's office and a motion to dismiss.
I don't think he will dismiss in total. Let someone else make that determination.
Well, McAfee did make a reference to the State Bar being just down the street from his courtroom.Quote:
All three could be literally disbarred if he pushes the issue. I agree with Greta as well.
Good point.aezmvp said:
I suspect that even if he has the opinion written he may wait for the election filing deadline to pass mid March so he doesn't have to worry about his job for 4 years. Currently unopposed.
I think the deadline is March 8th isn't it? That falls well within his 2 week timeframe. I agree he could be waiting for the deadline, and if he tossed Fami before the deadline the DNC machine would throw in a stiff to run against him within seconds of him tossing Fani and as you pointed out thus far McAfee is running unopposed. I'm sure he's well aware how quickly that could changeaezmvp said:
I suspect that even if he has the opinion written he may wait for the election filing deadline to pass mid March so he doesn't have to worry about his job for 4 years. Currently unopposed.
Willis, who was passing notes to Abbate and signaling with nods, "looked like she wanted to jump up and argue this case herself,"aggiehawg said:
This is a good article summarizing the events in court yesterday and the arguments (or lack thereof) in the summations.
Recommended for those who were unable to watch.
LINK
She hot footed it out of there for the rebuttal, no way she could have kept her huge ego in check when Sadow methodically pulled the wings off that nearly dead fly and she knew it.Foreverconservative said:Willis, who was passing notes to Abbate and signaling with nods, "looked like she wanted to jump up and argue this case herself,"aggiehawg said:
This is a good article summarizing the events in court yesterday and the arguments (or lack thereof) in the summations.
Recommended for those who were unable to watch.
LINK
Criminal case, burden of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt.Quote:
IF the preponderance of evidence is all prepared and tidied and ready to go when this case starts, and...
aggiehawg said:
This is a good article summarizing the events in court yesterday and the arguments (or lack thereof) in the summations.
Recommended for those who were unable to watch.
LINK
aggiehawg said:
I feel sorry Abbate. He was in a very bad position with his boss sitting behind him but within his peripheral vision.
He knew when she was pissed at him, and he was already nervous but with her literally looking over his shoulder? Brutal.
Doesn't change the fact that he truly sucked because Fani herself had badly screwed up, not only in hiring Wade but in the entire response to this motion to disqualify.
Fani and Wade are in this hole because of two people, Fanu and Wade.
aggiehawg said:
Fani and Wade are in this hole because of two people, Fanu and Wade.
LINKQuote:
Defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant has been subpoenaed to appear before a Georgia state Senate committee hearing on Wednesday as it investigates the actions of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Merchant confirmed to CNN that she had been subpoenaed for the hearing, which will be livestreamed.
The Georgia legislative committee, formed in January to investigate the Fulton County District Attorney, said they planned to issue subpoenas as they investigate Willis, the Democratic state prosecutor who brought the racketeering case against Donald Trump and his allies for their actions after the 2020 election.
Merchant, the defense attorney for a Trump co-defendant, is the first person to be issued a subpoena by the committee. She initially launched the allegations of an improper relationship against Willis and Nathan Wade, the lead prosecutor on the case. The controversy has threatened to undermine the case against Trump in Georgia.
At the committee's first meeting in February, state Sen. Bill Cowsert, the Republican chairman, laid out plans for subpoenas and depositions as part of the investigation into alleged misconduct by Willis.
Cowsert said the panel already has heard from "whistleblowers" but did not elaborate on what information they provided. He said the committee intends to dig into any credible allegations, no matter how long the investigation takes.
aggiehawg said:
And the hits just keep coming for Willis and Wade.LINKQuote:
Defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant has been subpoenaed to appear before a Georgia state Senate committee hearing on Wednesday as it investigates the actions of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Merchant confirmed to CNN that she had been subpoenaed for the hearing, which will be livestreamed.
The Georgia legislative committee, formed in January to investigate the Fulton County District Attorney, said they planned to issue subpoenas as they investigate Willis, the Democratic state prosecutor who brought the racketeering case against Donald Trump and his allies for their actions after the 2020 election.
Merchant, the defense attorney for a Trump co-defendant, is the first person to be issued a subpoena by the committee. She initially launched the allegations of an improper relationship against Willis and Nathan Wade, the lead prosecutor on the case. The controversy has threatened to undermine the case against Trump in Georgia.
At the committee's first meeting in February, state Sen. Bill Cowsert, the Republican chairman, laid out plans for subpoenas and depositions as part of the investigation into alleged misconduct by Willis.
Cowsert said the panel already has heard from "whistleblowers" but did not elaborate on what information they provided. He said the committee intends to dig into any credible allegations, no matter how long the investigation takes.
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ttorneys for David Shafer, a co-defendant of former President Donald Trump in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's election case, have notified the court that they have found a witness they say could undercut Willis's claims about the timeline of her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
Willis has come under intense scrutiny for her relationship with Wade, whom she hired to pursue the case against Trump. Co-defendant Mike Roman initially raised the allegations that Willis had benefitted from the relationship, highlighting the sums Wade received for his work from her office. The pair has acknowledged the relationship, but they claim it began in 2022 after Willis hired Wade.
In a notice of proposed testimony, however, Shafer's attorneys have indicated that, should the opportunity arise to present additional evidence in the matter, they would call Cobb County Co-Chief Deputy District Attorney Cindi Lee Yeager as a witness. The filing asks that in that circumstance they should be permitted to subpoena Yeager.
The filing, obtained by Just the News, offers an outline of Yeager's potential testimony, which says that she had spoken with repeatedly with attorney Terence Bradley, Wade's divorce attorney, about Willis and Wade.
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Yeager, the filing indicates, is prepared to testify that the pair met in 2019 and that Wade "had definitively begun a romantic relationship with Ms. Willis during the time that Ms. Willis was running for District Attorney in 2019 through 2020."
BREAKING 🚨🚨
— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) March 4, 2024
GA Prosecutor's Proposed Testimony Offered to Reopen #FaniWillis Disqualification hearing pic.twitter.com/OQo4IEm4WA
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— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) March 4, 2024
"Mr. Wade had definitively begun a romantic relationship with Ms. Willis during the time that Ms. Willis was running for District Attorney in 2019 through 2020" pic.twitter.com/jGerSWoL9V
JFABNRGR said:
Yeager apparently overhead Fani directly contact Bradley and warn him against talking about the relationship. Seems like all in that office are interested in a new boss.
Don't forget the waiter that called into Megyn Kelly to say he saw Bradley, Bradley's attorney and Wade having lunch a few weeks back.aggiejayrod said:JFABNRGR said:
Yeager apparently overhead Fani directly contact Bradley and warn him against talking about the relationship. Seems like all in that office are interested in a new boss.
But Bradley testified that nobody in the DA's office contacted him. Would he go on the stand and lie?
It's pretty obvious that he went from the defense's best friend to Neo dodging every question and it's easy to guess the reason why.
aggiehawg said:Don't forget the waiter that called into Megyn Kelly to say he saw Bradley, Bradley's attorney and Wade having lunch a few weeks back.aggiejayrod said:JFABNRGR said:
Yeager apparently overhead Fani directly contact Bradley and warn him against talking about the relationship. Seems like all in that office are interested in a new boss.
But Bradley testified that nobody in the DA's office contacted him. Would he go on the stand and lie?
It's pretty obvious that he went from the defense's best friend to Neo dodging every question and it's easy to guess the reason why.
barbacoa taco said:
So a bunch of hearsay and double hearsay?
Yeager works in Cobb County DA's office, not Fulton County.JFABNRGR said:
Yeager apparently overhead Fani directly contact Bradley and warn him against talking about the relationship. Seems like all in that office are interested in a new boss.
barbacoa taco said:
It would be testimony of conversations had with Bradley offered for the truth of the matter asserted. That's hearsay. And Bradley already took the stand.
