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win.”), and implying that that God himself had chosen her for this case, that he was on her side, and that she was doing His work in this prosecution. Ex. E at 5-7.
Approximately two weeks later, Hachette Book Group published a book about D.A. Willis and the ongoing criminal case depicting her as the “hard-charging,” afraid of nothing prosecutor. See Michael Isikoff & Daniel Klaidman, Find Me The Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election, Acknowledgements (1st ed. 2024) (Find Me The Votes). According to the authors, Willis gave them significant “access and time…” and Willis certainly knew that this book would be published prior to the trial of this case. ¹
Having already significantly compromised Defendants’ due process rights, DA Willis then began her efforts to conceal the full nature of her behavior from the trial court.² On February 2, 2024, DA Willis filed an opposition to various
¹ In her extensive interviews with the book’s authors, D.A. Willis continued to thrust her themes of alleged racism against her and her Office into the public forefront, providing details of racist comments and threats of violence against her, as well as highlighting her need for enhanced security because of this case. Among other things, Willis told the authors that, since her Office had opened this case, the comments were “always racist.” Id. at 223. She again invoked God as her ally, stating that she had God’s protection and direction in handling this case. Id. at 2, 6, 225, 271, 273.
2 On January 17, 2024, DA Willis, through her private attorney, filed for a protective order in SADA Wade’s divorce proceeding in the Superior Court of Cobb County. In that filing, Willis accused Wade’s spouse of “conspire[ing] with interested parties in the criminal Election Interference Case to use the civil discovery process to annoy, embarrass, and oppress District Attorney Willis.” Ex. F at 44-45, Emergency Motion By Non-Party Deponent for Protective Order, January 17, 2024, p. 8, Wade v. Wade,
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