Georgia DA avoids deposition, for now, in divorce proceeding of embattled prosecutor


Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will not have to immediately answer questions under oath in the divorce proceeding of a special prosecutor she hired to help lead the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump.

In a short-term win for Willis, a judge ruled that she does not have to sit for a deposition that had been scheduled for Tuesday. But the judge postponed a decision on whether Willis will have to testify eventually.

Willis has charged Trump and numerous co-defendants with a racketeering conspiracy to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia in the 2020 election. A lawyer for co-defendant Mike Roman claimed earlier this month in court that Willis was having an affair with Nathan Wade, an outside lawyer she hired to help run the prosecution as a contract attorney.........

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