Judiciary
Choose assigned to Trump’s prison case in Georgia as soon as labored for DA
The state courtroom choose appointed to preside within the Georgia racketeering case in opposition to former President Donald Trump as soon as labored for Fani T. Willis, the present Fulton County, Georgia, district lawyer who obtained the indictment.
Choose Scott F. McAfee, 34, is “brand-new on the bench,” in response to Law360. He grew to become a choose in February after his December 2022 appointment to fill a emptiness by Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. McAffee is the most recent choose on the 19-member Fulton County superior courtroom.
The Washington Post, the New York Times, Reuters and Axios even have tales.
McAfee had labored underneath Willis when she led the advanced trial division of the Fulton County district lawyer’s workplace. McAfee was later promoted to the main case division, the place he prosecuted homicide instances. Willis grew to become district lawyer after McAfee not labored on the district lawyer’s workplace.
After leaving the district lawyer’s workplace, McAfee grew to become an assistant U.S. lawyer for the Northern District of Georgia after which the chief of Georgia’s Workplace of the Inspector Normal. The office investigates waste, fraud, abuse and corruption within the state govt department.
Regardless of McAfee’s prior working relationship with Willis, he has “conservative bona fides,” in response to the New York Occasions. He was vp of the Federalist Society when he was a regulation scholar on the College of Georgia. As an undergraduate at Emory College, he performed cello and majored in music, the Washington Put up stories.
McAfee labored for then-Georgia Supreme Courtroom Justice Keith R. Blackwell as an intern after regulation faculty.
“I’ve recognized Choose McAfee for greater than a decade,” Blackwell informed Law360. “As a lawyer and choose, he’s shiny, cautious, considerate and sensible. He’s each hard-working and modest—a basic workhorse, not a present horse.”
The Washington Put up famous that the Trump case “could possibly be transferred to a unique choose later within the course of.”
See additionally:
ABAJournal.com: “Georgia indictment bolstered by broad state regulation on racketeering”
ABAJournal.com: “These legal professionals are charged together with Trump in Georgia RICO indictment; is ‘partisan shift’ guilty?”
