{"id":2199864,"date":"2024-03-15T14:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T18:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/like-finding-two-people-in-a-bank-vault-and-taking-one-off-to-jail-turley-slams-fani-willis-verdict\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T14:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T18:28:03","slug":"like-finding-two-people-in-a-bank-vault-and-taking-one-off-to-jail-turley-slams-fani-willis-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/like-finding-two-people-in-a-bank-vault-and-taking-one-off-to-jail-turley-slams-fani-willis-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like Finding Two People In A Bank Vault And Taking One Off To Jail\u2019: Turley Slams Fani Willis Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flike-finding-two-people-in-a-bank-vault-and-taking-one-off-to-jail-turley-slams-fani-willis-verdict%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2199864&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">After Judge Scott McAfee ruled on Friday that either Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis or Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade had to exit the 2020 Georgia election case against former President Donald Trump for the prosecution to continue, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley stated, \u201cIt\u2019s like finding two people in a bank vault and taking one off to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The decision came after Willis was accused by co-defendant Mike Roman of being romantically involved with Wade at the time she hired him for the Trump case. A witness\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fani-willis-started-relationship-with-prosecutor-before-trump-case-witness-testifies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testified<\/a>\u00a0last month that the romantic relationship between Willis and Wade began before the case started, while Willis maintains that the relationship didn\u2019t take place until later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turley started by explaining one reason McAfee might have rendered such a decision: \u201cThe reason that\u2019s attractive is that it avoids the cliff problem. If he took Willis off the case, he\u2019d have to take the entire office out of the mix. He\u2019d have to reassign this to another set of prosecutors. That would cause considerable delay, could also cause the dismissal of the case if those new prosecutors looked at this racketeering theory and said, like many of us, \u2018Wow, this doesn\u2019t really hold together very well.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSo this avoided the cliff but it did not avoid the question that will inevitably come up,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s like finding two people in a bank vault and taking one off to jail. The question is the appearance problem, that the judge identified with regard to Wade, was directly related to his relationship with Willis. They both testified in the same way. They were the two parts of this relationship, and yet only one of them was disqualified. And so that\u2019s going to lead to these questions: Why should Willis escape that same penalty? The opinion leaves us feeling like the court went and shot the wounded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe problem is the disjointed aspect of the opinion itself,\u201d Turley stated. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t really hold together that well. The big question was: What is the standard? Is it just an appearance or do you have to show an actual conflict? He indicates that he believes it is indeed the appearance standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWell, if that\u2019s the case, I don\u2019t see how Willis escaped disqualification,\u201d he asserted. \u201cMany people believed that both of these prosecutors lied on the stand, that there were false statements admitted to courts. The key about that is Willis and Wade are prosecuting people in this case for that very conduct. And so it\u2019s hard to see how Willis continuing the case does not undermine it in the eyes of the public and hurts the case overall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turley noted of Willis, \u201cShe will stand accused of false statements as she prosecutes others for that type of conduct. And keep in mind that there are state efforts now to fully investigate this including possible bar issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this article.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/judge-rules-that-fani-willis-or-nathan-wade-has-to-leave-the-georgia-trump-case\">Judge Rules That Fani Willis Or Nathan Wade Has To Leave The Georgia Trump\u00a0Case<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Judge Scott McAfee ruled on Friday that either Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis or Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade had to exit the 2020 Georgia election case against former President Donald Trump for the prosecution to continue, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley stated, \u201cIt\u2019s like finding two people in a bank vault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2199865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/09\/Untitled-design-71.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/09\/Untitled-design-71.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}