10/22/2024
: Judge Scott McAfee has ruled in Georgia that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office can continue prosecuting Donald and his co-defendants, but only if special prosecutor Nathan Wade steps down.
In his Friday ruling, McAfee wrote that the had failed to meet its burden proving that Willis “acquired an actual conflict of interest in this case through her personal relationship and recurring travels with her lead prosecutor.”
But the went on to write that the record in the case highlighted “a significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the prosecution team — an appearance that must be removed through the State’s selection of one of two options.”
Those options are 1) for Willis, along with her whole office, to step aside, which would mean the case would be reassigned by a state panel to another office or prosecutor. The second option is 2) for Wade to withdraw, which McAfee wrote would allow “the District Attorney, the Defendants, and the public to move forward without his presence or remuneration distracting from and potentially compromising the merits of this case.”
