After a break the State of Georgia the office of [#DA#FaniWillis] is up now.
[Willis is seated at counsel's table.]
DA: #TerrenceBradley did not impeach anyone, including #Wade. Any of Bradley's testimony was improper impeachment because it did not confront Wade in any way. Maybe Bradley lied to #AMerchant. Yeartie told her atty she had no info about the relationship.
DA: The standard for DQ requires the defense to show an actual conflict of interest that Willis received a financial benefit.
#Georgia#DA: The burden is on the defense. It is a high standard of proof to prove misconduct to DQ a prosecutor. The defense's cited cases are misleading, inapplicable, or support the State's position.
#McAfee: There are a number of cases that exclusively refer to an appearance of impropriety, though.
DA: My review of the caselaw is in those cases there was also an actual conflict of interest. When you have an actual conflict there will always be an appearance of impropriety.
#McAfee: The financial interest impacts the final result or the prosecution as a whole? What if DAs are given a bonus they win? Maybe it doesn't affect the outcome but doesn't it affect the prosecution of the case?
#Georgia#DA: Yes, l'd agree that DQ is appropriate there.
In #legal weeds now. #McAfee & #Georgia#DA back & forth on caselaw, statutes, various references, etc.
Super boring. Not helping that DA totally lacks charisma.
McAfee: There was a relationship, purchases & reimbursements made & money back & forth between #Wade & #FaniWillis, right? So the idea that money changed hands is no longer speculative right?
DA: Yes. Also uncontested is that there was a relationship [tho dif timeline]
This was done to embarrass the Willis & to impugn her reputation.
#McAfee to #AMerchant: Wasn't there a promise made by you that Bradley would impeach specific witnesses?
#Georgia#DA: Yes, that's what was represented to the Court. AMerchant represented that #TerrenceBradley would be an “impeaching machine" but he wasn't able to impeach anyone.
DA: Bradley was asked "do you think it started before Willis hired Wade"? His answer of
"absolutely" was based on the "do you think" part of the question. The question itself asked Bradley to speculate.
#Georgia#DA: #FaniWillis' father testified as to why Willis kept the cash in her home & the fact that he resided in her house in 2019 & Wade did not visit nor cohabitate as #AMerchant asserted. There’s been no evidence to the contrary re what Willis & her father said.
#McAfee: Was it fmr Gov Barnes' testimony that he was the first to be asked by Willis to lead the prosecution or just to be a prosecutor?
DA: To lead the prosecution. Barnes also testified to Wade’s qualifications.
#Georgia#DA is finally warming up in his presentation.
Currently discussing the cellphone records.
DA: not once does #Wade’s phone device appear at #FaniWillis’s home. The defense argues that Wade visited Hapeville 23 times Jan-Mar 2021; Willis didn't live in Hapeville area at the time.
DA informs court that the cell phone location records were not analyzed by an expert nor were they peer reviewed. The normal practices that are used to check data were not used here.
"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the #SouthChinaSea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the #BRPSierraMadre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships." #AyunginShoal#SecondThomasShoal#Philippines
The Philippine Coast Guard should be getting a good chunk of this.
"In a statement on Tuesday, October 10, House appropriations committee chairperson Zaldy Co said a total of P1.23 billion in confidential funds were realigned to agencies at the forefront of efforts to assert the #Philippines’ territorial rights in the #WestPhilippineSea." #SouthChinaSea