Sorry they didn't take her off the Trump Georgia RICO case back when they learned about her affair with one of her attorneys. But this isn't about that case...
The slowly moving YSL RICO case against rapper Young Thug and several other co-defendants, already beset by secret meetings between the prosecution and the court to such an extent that the case was taken away from Fulton County’s chief judge, was a source of controversy again Friday, this time because of an email DA Fani Willis sent (D).
Early on in the Friday proceedings, Douglas Weinstein, an attorney for rapper Deamonte “Yak Gotti” Kendrick, fumed that Willis sent an email to the court and others on Thursday morning unbeknownst to the defense.
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“I appreciate you forwarding to us the ex parte communications that you received from Madam DA Fani Willis. Given the sensitivity and the history in this case of ex parte meetings or maybe communications, would you just please request the state — I understand what was probably behind that communications, and of course it is great for a boss to buck up and underling who has perhaps been attacked or maligned,” Weinstein told Judge Paige Reese Whitaker. “But I don’t believe that — and I don’t think the court does either — that the court should have been copied on that communications.”
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Law&Crime has obtained the email thread Weinstein spoke of, and it shows that an individual in Germany first sent a lengthy email bashing prosecutor Adriane Love and cc’ing others, including Judges Reese and Glanville.
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As it turns out, DA Willis took it upon herself to respond and defend Love — encouraging her to “ignore the haters” — while replying all to everyone already on the email thread, including the trial judge.
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Not only does she show again very, very poor judgment, she shows carelessness - or worse, ignorance - in email etiquette.
After Willis replied all, the judge noticed and alerted defense counsel.
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Weinstein responded to say that while he didn’t believe the Willis email would sway the judge in any way, it was nonetheless inappropriate.
“It shouldn’t be happening. Yup,” the judge said.
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Weinstein asked the judge to tell the state it’s past time for prosecutors to stop communicating with the court outside of the presence of the defense. Reese didn’t seem pleased that this even needed to be said.
“It’s a shame that the court would even have to say something like that, but um — can you all please communicate to everybody in the DA’s office to not have any sort of ex parte communications with the court?” the judge said.
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Reese [...] agreed it would be a good idea to enter the Willis email into the record.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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