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Atlanta (CBS News) — Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor working with the Fulton County District Attorney's Office, resigned his post after a judge ruled Friday that District Attorney Fani Willis & her office may remain on the 2020 election case involving former President Donald Trump & his allies if Wade stepped aside.
Wade's resignation as special prosecutor came hours after Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee laid out 2 options that would allow for the continued prosecution of the racketeering case against Trump & his co-defendants stemming from an alleged scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
McAfee's decision was in response to a request to disqualify Willis & Wade by Michael Roman, a longtime GOP operative & 1 of Trump's co-defendants, who said there was a romantic relationship between the pair & that Willis had improperly benefited from that relationship. Although Willis acknowledged she & Wade were romantically involved, she fiercely disputed the claims that the relationship began before she hired him in November 2021.
Though McAfee's decision allowed Willis & her office to continue prosecuting the case he chided Willis for what he said is a "tremendous lapse in judgment" & criticized the "unprofessional manner" of her testimony during an evidentiary hearing last month.
Still, he said Georgia law "does not permit the finding of an actual conflict for simply making bad choices — even repeatedly & it is the trial court's duty to confine itself to the relevant issues & applicable law properly brought before it."
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