In a significant legal development, a judge has ruled that Nathan Wade’s former law partner and divorce attorney, Terrence Bradley, must testify about the timeline of the alleged intimate relationship between his client and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
The order came on Monday as part of proceedings related to Willis’s hiring of Wade as the special prosecutor in former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case. Bradley, who is alleged to have direct knowledge of the relationship between Willis and Wade, had previously refused to answer questions citing attorney-client privilege.
However, Judge Scott McAfee ruled that Bradley and his counsel failed to establish that the communication falls under attorney-client privilege, clearing the way for Bradley to retake the witness stand. According to CNN, Bradley could testify as early as Tuesday.
The case has garnered attention as Trump and his co-defendants seek Willis’s disqualification and the dismissal of charges against them, alleging that Willis’s relationship with Wade compromised the integrity of the case. Recent revelations from Trump’s legal team suggest that Wade made numerous overnight trips to Willis’s condo and communicated with her earlier than previously testified.
Trump’s lawyers claim that cellphone data indicates Wade visited Willis’s condo at least 35 times before being hired for the case, contradicting Wade’s testimony that he visited the property no more than 10 times before his hiring. Both Willis and Wade maintain that their relationship began in early 2022.
McAfee is expected to decide on whether to admit the cellphone data as evidence at a hearing scheduled for Friday, according to Fox News.
