The Georgia Court of Appeals has disqualified Fulton DA #FaniWillis from the RICO case against @realDonaldTrump
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"we reverse the trial court’s denial of the appellants’ motion to disqualify DA Willis and her office. As we conclude that the elected district attorney is wholly disqualified from this case, “the assistant district attorneys — whose only power to prosecute a case is derived from the constitutional authority of the district attorney who appointed them — have no authority to proceed"
It's a 31 page order... digesting it now...
The indictment is now an "orphan" - an indictment without a prosecutor
The now-infamous "church speech" factored heavily into the "forensic misconduct" piece of all this
Forensic misconduct involves extrajudicial statements by prosecutors against defendants
Court of Appeals notes, correctly, that the "forward looking remedy" of removing only Nathan Wade failed to cure the"
ODOR OF MENDACITY
They remind Willis that the DA has to make decisions "in the public interest"
Here's the coup de grace:
"disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings"
It's not just Willis, but the entire DA's office that is booted
The indictment itself is not dismissed by this order...
But since the odds that any other prosecutor in Georgia will be appointed to it, the Fulton Trump RICO case is dead
Willis can try to appeal to the GA Supreme Court, but I do not see them taking the case
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I will break all this down and explain what it means for the indictment moving forward!
A team of #FaniWillis prosecutors engineered an illegal ex parte meeting in the #YoungThug trial - when defense lawyer complained he was ordered to jail - illegally
@AshleighMerchan files Motion for Contempt of Court against Fulton DA #FaniWillis
"According to social media posts, as of September 17, 2024, Ms. Willis was in Los Angeles, California attending fundraising events for her re-election campaign"
"Ms. Willis is under lawful subpoena, and she has not filed a motion to quash, nor could she. She is simply flouting this Court’s lawful process, apparently intent on playing a game of chicken with the Court"
Judge in the #YoungThug #YSLTrial orders a "show cause" contempt hearing for everyone who was present for his allegedly illegal secret "ex parte" meeting with #FaniWillis' top prosecutor
He is obsessed with finding the "leak" - which was perfectly legal
And in his order, he confesses to the ex parte
"Judges shall not initiate, permit, or consider ex parte communications...made to them outside the presence of the parties, or their lawyers, concerning a pending proceeding"
In my opinion, Glanville should immediately step aside from this case and retire.
I doubt he will like the blowback from all this that will eventually land on him.
He seems to be emotionally invested in everything about this case.
Jocelyn Wade files a new response to Nathan Wade's effort to get out of his support order after he left the #FaniWillis team
Wade alleges that since he was booted from the Trump RICO case by #FaniWillis that he's has a "change in circumstances"
Meaning: "I'm making less money"
Jocelyn says Nathan is lying because she says he got two checks totalling $53,000 only 3 days prior to filing his "emergency" motion to modify his support obligation