The Georgia Court of Appeals has disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from her 2020 election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump.
In a surprise decision Thursday, the Second Division of the Peach State’s appellate court rejected a request to dismiss the case entirely but granted a motion to oust Willis, who last year sued Trump, 78, and Had led the prosecution against 18 co-defendants. ,
Judge Trenton Brown said in a 12-page order that Trump and eight other co-defendants had “numerous grounds” to appeal the case after a lower court “imposed unfair measures,” despite Willis’ finding that There was a “significant appearance of impropriety” in the prosecution. ,
The decision cites Willis’s decision to appoint her former lover Nathan Wade as a special prosecutor and pay him highly, taking him on lavish trips and allowing her office to bill highly for his work on the Trump case. Has been given.
Brown and the other appellants stated, “Although we recognize that the mere presence of impropriety is not generally sufficient to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandatory and no other measure would undermine public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.” “Will not be enough to restore.” The jurists argued.
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