Defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant has been subpoenaed to appear before a Georgia state Senate committee hearing on Wednesday as it investigates the actions of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Merchant confirmed to CNN that she had been subpoenaed for the hearing, which will be livestreamed.
The Georgia legislative committee, formed in January to investigate the Fulton County District Attorney, said they planned to issue subpoenas as they investigated Willis, the Democratic state prosecutor who brought the racketeering case against Donald Trump and his allies for their actions after the 2020 election.
Merchant, the defense attorney for a Trump co-defendant,…
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Defense lawyers in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump say they want to put someone on the stand whose testimony could back up their assertion that Terrence Bradley, a witness in their effort to disqualify the prosecutors running the case, gave misleading testimony.
The new information comes from Cindi Lee Yeager, a deputy district attorney in neighboring Cobb County, Ga., whom the defense attorneys said they spoke to on Friday about conversations she had with Mr. Bradley.
At issue is a key matter in the disqualification effort: the timing of the romantic relationship that developed…
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In short: Former ACT top prosecutor Shane Drumgold successfully challenged some adverse findings made against him in the final report of an inquiry into the dropped prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann.
But ACT Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury says the recommendations made in the report remain relevant despite that ruling.
What’s next? Mr Rattenbury says the recommendations largely went to systemic changes, have been “generally well received” by stakeholders, and the government remains committed to implementing them.
ACT Attorney-General Shane Ratenbury says the findings of an inquiry into the prosecution of ex-Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann remain relevant, despite an ACT Supreme Court ruling…
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