Fulton judge says Defendants' due process rights haven't been violated or prejudiced

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...so the calls for DA Willis to step down are absurd.

There's no internal action against DA Willis for the relationship, so the judge thought he'd make that judgment himself, even after finding no harm to the defendant.

FFS, McAfee appears biased as hell right now against the prosecution for allowing the salacious, irrelevant testimony about the relationship into open court in what can only be seen as an attempt to degrade the credibility of the DA. I've never seen any prosecutor subjected to the same embarassment without some cause sufficient to proving the accusations in the complaint.

Basically the judge allowed a humiliating circus just to see if the witness and accused could be goaded into lying on the stand, and is now holding the DA responsible for the salaciousness that he, himself, allowed to take root and blossom in that courtroom.

There has never been anything proven in the complaint or in open court that supported the accusations, but this DA is being scolded and diciplined away from her lead prosecutor for behavior that has no bearing on the case, and as the judge admits, represented absolutely no material harm to the defendant.

Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade
Ga judge finds no actual conflict of interest for Fani Willis in Trump RICO case, but finds appearance of one based on relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, and orders Willis to choose to either withdraw from the case or dump Wade. Easy choice.

Michael Isikoff @Isikoff 2h
Lots of tough language in Judge McAfee's decision, but the most important is on p. 17: "There has not been a showing that the Defendants' due process rights have been violated or that the issues involved prejudiced the defendants in any way."

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1. Honestly, if I were MacAfee, I'd be ticked this happened to my big case. He should have called Wade and Willis

in when it broke and suggested one drop out, or maybe they could have come up with another solution.

Whatever, the case will likely be pushed beyond election, which means it might never occur.

[elleng]

2. I tend to agree, tho I've paid about zero attention to this b.s. song and dance.

'Conflict of interest' for the relationship???

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5. right, he says there wasn't one, but the judge set up a salacious hearing focused on sexual relations

..that had nothing to do with the complaint.

Then he complains about the 'appearances' on something he said didn't harm the defendant in any way.

Appearances that he, (himself) set up by agreeing to the hearing and allowing that irrelevant testimony that was an obvious attempt to soften up or discredit the DA.

[elleng]

6. DAMN!

[JohnSJ]

3. Unfortunately that won't be the headline most of the MSM will offer

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4. ...so the calls for DA Willis to step down are absurd.

Yup, a delaying attempt and it worked.

[Lovie777]

7. Ya know............................................

I've come to the conclusion that the present Republican party is fucked up, they lie, cheat and steal while making up shit on their daily quest to tarnish anyone or anything that don't fit their insane make-believe presence and will continue to do so forever or until they are stopped.

And with this psycho scenario they won't stop nor come to any sane reality.

So therefore, Ms. Willis needs to fight these crazy people head on, and I truly support her.

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8. I agree

...we need to fight, not just fold whenever they accuse of something.

In this case, her actions were not found to have affected the defendants rights, only perceptions in the public which this judge did his best to muddy up.