The Trump legal team is at it again.
A motion has been made to have Fani Willis removed as the prosecutor on the George election interference case.
This time, Trump’s attorneys are claiming that Willis is prejudiced against Trump.
Here We Go Again
Trump’s team has been relentless with its motions and while they have a low battering average, so to speak, these motions are serving their purpose.
That purpose, of course, is to try to keep Trump out of the courtroom until after the election in the hopes that he wins, so he will not have to stand trial for at least four years.
By then, I would think most of these cases will have either been dropped or fallen off the radar and nobody will even care any longer.
To that point, attorney Steve Sadow dug deep into Georgia law to find an opinion from a former Georgia Supreme Court Justice.
Justice Harold Nelson Hill’s decades-old opinionstated, “Before a trial, the court should be sensitive to the potential for prejudice to the defendant.
“I believe that a trial court should disqualify the state’s attorney if his continued presence in the case would cause a reasonable potential for prejudice to the defendant.
“A reasonable potential for prejudice standard would rigorously protect defendants.
“It would not require a showing of actual, or likely, harm. Rather, the trial court would focus on the possibility of an unfair trial.
“Yet, this rule would place the burden on defendants of demonstrating some real, not imagined, chance of prejudice.'”
Using Hill’s opinion, Sadow argued, “Here, even Hill’s ‘reasonable potential for prejudice’ pretrial standard is easily met.
“With nationwide slanderous media coverage on every available network, appellants have shown that there is not only a ‘real chance,’ but a substantial probability, for unfair treatment during the trial process.”
I really doubt the argument will work, but it does have some teeth to it.
But as I noted, the real issue for Trump is to have this case pushed back until well after the election and on that front, I think this will be a success.
