"Dismissal of the indictment is not the appropriate remedy," the judge ruled.Nathan Wade, the lead prosecutor in the Fulton County election interference case against Former President Trump and his co-defendants, resigned Friday as special prosecutor following a ruling by the judge overseeing the case.
In a short letter accepting Wade's resignation, Willis lauded him "for the professionalism and dignity you have shown over the last 865 days." "The District Attorney may choose to step aside, along with the whole of her office, and refer the prosecution to the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council for reassignment," McAfee wrote.
"While respecting the Court's decision, we believe that the Court did not afford appropriate significance to the prosecutorial misconduct of Willis and Wade, including the financial benefits, testifying untruthfully about when their personal relationship began, as well as Willis' extrajudicial MLK 'church speech,' where she played the race card and falsely accused the defendants and their counsel of racism," Sadow said.
Despite this, McAfee judged Wade's testimony -- during a hearing to probe the allegations -- to be "patently unpersuasive," which McAfee said "indicates a willingness on his part to wrongly conceal his relationship with the District Attorney." But he still took Willis to task for it, writing that its effect "was to cast racial aspersions at an indicted Defendant's decision to file this pretrial motion.""Providing this type of public comment creates dangerous waters for the District Attorney to wade further into," McAfee wrote.
FILE- Special prosecutor Nathan Wade looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta.Roman and several other Trump co-defendants first sought Willis' disqualification from the election case over allegations that she benefited financially from her romantic relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade, who she hired for the case, through vacations they took that were often booked on his credit card.
"Now, do you have to find that Wade and Willis lied? No," said Trump's attorney, Steve Sadow, during his closing argument in the evidentiary hearing. "What you need to be able to find is that that is a concern, a legitimate concern, based on the evidence in this case about their truthfulness."
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