aggiejayrod said:
AggieAL1 said:
So you've got Ashleigh Merchant, who misrepresented almost everything she offered in motions to disqualify Fani Willis, ready to tell a Georgia Senate committee everything she claims Terrence Bradley told her.
Then you've got a Cobb County deputy district attorney prepared to tell the panel everything Terrence Bradley told her.
Then you've got Terrence Bradley telling everyone that he can't tell anyone anything because anything he knows is privileged and everything he's been telling everyone is speculation.
Sounds like an ironclad case against Fani Willis to me.
You are either Abbate or his boyfriend because those are the only two people in the world who believed everything he said in his closing. Actually the way he presented makes me think even Abbate didn't believe what he said.
It really doesn't matter what Abbate believes. Or the defendants. This was a summation and nothing said constitutes evidence. Some arguments may sway the judge more than others, but there appeared to be nothing from either side that rang any bells.
Judge McAfee has consistently said the question is simply whether Willis accrued personal or financial benefit from the relationship, how much if any, and how long such benefits continued. And did it have a bearing on the prosecution of the defendants? That's the case.
The evidence against Willis and Wade is thin. In fact it boils down to two assertions by an ex-friend of Willis', Robin Yeartie -- she had "no doubt" that Willis and Wade were in a romantic relationship before Willis retained Wade and she had seen them "hugging, kissing (showing) affection" in social settings, presumably before the hiring date.
But thanks to cross-examination by Cross and re-direct by Sadow, Yeartie conceded she had no recall of when, where on how she learned on the affair, except some vague reference to conversions with Willis. Yeartie also has a possible ax to grind since she was fired by Willis in early 2022 and they haven't spoken since.
Even Yeartie's attorney said she had no meaningful testimony to give in seeking to quash a subpoena for her appearance.
It will be difficult for McAfee to squeeze a disqualification out of that. (Though nothing's impossible.).
