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I just say in Thai: That's OK. I'm just waiting for a train.

Fulton official grills DA Fani Willis over alleged relationship Commissioner Bob Ellis is asking Willis questions over her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who assisted in her Donald Trump investigation. Published: Jan. 22, 2024 at 10:11 PM GMT+7|Updated: 15 hours ago ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A Fulton County commissioner has become the latest public official to demand information from embattled District Attorney Fani Willis about her relationship to the special prosecutor she hired to help investigate former President Donald Trump. On Friday, Commissioner Bob Ellis sent a letter to Willis over allegations she has a personal relationship with Nathan Wade, who has been paid almost $1 million in taxpayer funds for his services in Willis’ investigation of the nation’s 45th president. Newly released bank statements show Willis and Wade took vacations together, and Wade is alleged to have used part of his salary from the district attorney’s office to travel with Willis. “As the chair of the Fulton County audit committee, I must reasonably inquire about allegations that contained in recent court filing asserting that you misused County funds and accepted valuable gifts and personal benefits from a contractor/recipient of County funds,” Ellis wrote. “These allegations involve your decision to appoint Nathan Wade as a special prosecutor in the matter in which former President Trump is a co-defendant,” the letter said. “Mr. Wade is alleged to (1) lack relevant prosecutorial experience in a case of this type and complexity, (2) have paid for your portion of multiple instances of joint leisure travel, and (3) be in a romantic relationship with you that was not disclosed to the court or to the parties in this case.” https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/01/22/fulton-official-grills-da-fani-willis-over-alleged-relationship/

What trump gets out of it is delay especially if there is mandate for a change in the prosecution team.

Or maybe quid pro quo.

These are part of the comments from Mrs. Jocelyn Wade's lawyer as to why she wanted to depose DA Willis:

or not to. Hearing in the big case (not the divorce case)is FEB 15. And Ms. Willis's response to the Roman Motion is due FEB 2.

You shoulda stuck with: So do you want to address the matter of others spending their wages as they see fit?

It is the mechanics of the case that are at risk. So now there are motions and response to motions and hearings that would be totally unnecessary except for the possible violations of state law that are now being discussed.

Whatever the basis of the allegations, there is already enough evidence via credit card etc. posted online in the AJC (Atlanta Journal Constitution) and other info that there was some impropriety oh her part.

Agreed. That is not the issue. The issue is whether the case is best served by her voluntarily removing herself from the case.

I guess playing the race card paid off. From the article linkesd just above: One of the co-defendants in the Trump case is seeking to have her disqualified from handling the case based on the allegations. It is an open question whether a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, the deputy on the case, would constitute a public-relations problem for Willis or a legal one. “There’s a big risk of hanging in there and fighting the motion for disqualification,” said Clark Cunningham, a Georgia State College of Law professor who has been following the case. “It may not get granted, but if it’s granted that would be a complete disaster for the case.” He said it might be best for Willis to voluntarily step aside, let a deputy take over and remove Wade from the case, rendering moot the allegation of an improper romantic relationship.

Trump doesn't have to prove he is innocent. Only that the case finding him liable was faulty. And the case is and will further likely be exclusively in written form to a judge panel.

Yes. And the legal issues, among others, are whether the Judge complied with Federal rules of procedure and evidence, as well as precedent judgments in similar cases, in allowing or disallowing certain evidence to be presented in the case.

Judge orders the unsealing of divorce case of Trump special prosecutor in Georgia accused of affair Updated 4:35 AM GMT+7, January 23, 2024 MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A judge on Monday ordered court records to be made public in the divorce involving a special prosecutor hired in the election case against Donald Trump and others and accused of having an affair with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The judge ordered the unsealing of the divorce case involving special prosecutor Nathan Wade after a request brought by a defense attorney who alleges an inappropriate relationship between Willis and Wade. The judge also put off a final decision on whether Willis will have to sit for questioning in the divorce case, but delayed her deposition that had been scheduled for Tuesday. Willis has defended her hiring of Wade, who has little prosecutorial experience, and has not directly denied a romantic relationship. She has accused Wade’s estranged wife of trying to obstruct her criminal election interference case against Trump and others by seeking to question her in the couple’s divorce proceedings. https://apnews.com/article/fani-willis-nathan-wade-affair-allegations-trump-e6cce17e3a4cd967e447620e2c1222ba

This was a Federal trial in District Court, S.D. New York.

Fulton DA accuses special prosecutor’s wife of ‘interfering’ with Trump probe Updated Jan 19, 2024 Fulton County’s district attorney on Thursday fired back at allegations she has engaged in an “improper” relationship with her top deputy, accusing his estranged wife of trying to obstruct her prosecution of Donald Trump and his allies. Fani Willis has been subpoenaed to give a pretrial deposition in the divorce case of Nathan and Joycelyn Wade on January 23, but in a blistering court filing on Thursday the DA’s attorney said that subpoena should be quashed. ... Willis did not address the nature of her relationship with Wade in the court filing. ... Willis so far has not addressed Roman’s underlying allegations, including if she inappropriately benefitted financially from him working on the Trump case. https://www.ajc.com/politics/fulton-trump-judge-schedules-february-hearing-on-willis-allegations/

As in any case, the jury verdict is a function of the evidence that the Judge allowed and disallowed. An appeal -- at least in part -- can bring into question some of those decisions based upon adjudicated precedent and/or rules of procedure including Federal Rules of Evidence.

Maybe but an appeal does not generally allow new evidence to be introduced.

No problem. The Court granted the stay for reasons not stated. March 30 reply is due.

Maybe so. However Carroll's Lawyer Ms.. Kaplan has yet to respond to the appeal after 2 continuances even though she says the appeal is a slam dunk loser.

The letter in the 2nd post was the request to Judge Kaplan for a mistrial. This is one of the instances of the appeal regarding evidence as admissible or not so. BTW E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said Wednesday that former President Trump has “absolutely zero” grounds for an appeal after a jury found that he defamed Carroll and is liable for sexual abuse of her. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3997968-e-jean-carroll-lawyer-says-trump-has-absolutely-zero-grounds-for-appeal/ https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/05/trump-rape-trial-witness-tracker-00095179

Allegations against Georgia prosecutors likely damaged case against Trump January 21, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. EST In some ways, however, the damage may already be done. After nearly two weeks of salacious headlines, Willis has still not denied or directly addressed the accusations. Trump and other critics have willingly filled that vacuum and amplified the most sensational claims. Regardless of what Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the case, decides to do — and regardless of whether the accusations are true — Trump has found a new line of attack on the validity of the Georgia case and Willis’s decision-making that he is unlikely to abandon. “Any objective observer who recognizes the strong public interest in knowing one way or the other whether a jury believes Donald Trump led a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election is going to be concerned about the impact of these allegations,” said Norm Eisen, a longtime Willis ally and advocate for the case who served as special counsel to the House of Representatives’ first impeachment of Trump. (long article) https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/01/21/fani-willis-nathan-wade-accusations-damage/ https://archive.is/0RaUN#selection-629.0-659.232

The filing alleges that Willis and Wade have been involved in a romantic relationship that began before Wade was appointed special prosecutor: Sources close to both the special prosecutor and the district attorney have confirmed they had an ongoing, personal relationship during the pendency of the special prosecutor’s divorce proceedings. According to these sources, the personal relationship between the district attorney and the special prosecutor began before this prosecution was initiated and before the district attorney appointed the special prosecutor.

A reasonable scenario as long as there are no criminal charges filed against Ms. Willis. As posted earlier: The motion said the checks sent to Wade from Fulton County and his subsequent purchase of vacations for Willis could amount to honest services fraud, a federal crime in which a vendor gives kickbacks to an employer. It is also possible this could be prosecuted under the federal racketeering statute, the motion said

The "she said" in the above quote is just a lawyer talking. The claim document in this case says: (NOV 4, 2019) Roughly 23 years ago