On Friday, Judge Scott McAfee will hear oral arguments on the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. As this is an evidentiary hearing, he alone will decide how much weight to give the testimony, as well as how much weight to give the documents and other physical evidence entered into the record.
While the state and the defense present their arguments in support of their respective positions, keep in mind that arguments by counsel are not evidence. He, not a jury, will decide the fate of Willis.
The most recent witness who testified was Terrence Bradley, the former divorce attorney of special prosecutor Nathan Wade, and the purported star witness for the defense. Bradley took the stand for a last-minute, special hearing Tuesday and delivered…nothing.
The lawyer for Trump co-defendant Michael Roman struggled for more than an hour to get Bradley to concede that he had previously texted to her allegedly damning information.
After conducting a 90-minute closed door hearing on Monday afternoon with Bradley and his attorney, McAfee reopened the evidence. Ruling that Bradley’s invocation of the attorney-client privilege was misapplied to only one specific exchange years ago between Bradley and his then-client, Wade, McAfee allowed more probing of Bradley by all counsel.
Ashleigh Merchant, the lawyer for Trump co-defendant Michael Roman, struggled for more than an hour to get Bradley to concede that he had previously texted to her allegedly damning information that countered the timeline attested to by Willis and Wade about when their personal relationship began. But when pressed by Merchant to admit that his texts were some kind of smoking gun evidence, Bradley instead steadfastly maintained, while under oath, that he was only “speculating” when he shared with Merchant what now seems to have been nothing but idle, salacious gossip. Bradley testified over and over again that he did not have any personal or direct knowledge as to when…
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