Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:28 pm
I must say, while I think this all ridiculous, Willis made a terrible witness. I would be furious if I had a client act like that on the stand.
I hear you. And I'm seeing multiple people say that. The one I cited above was Andrew Fleischman, whom I've referenced numerous times on this case because he's generally seemed the most reliable of the Willis skeptics who knows Georgia procedures. He does seem to have a beef with Willis, possibly a legitimate one: he sees her as an agent of the carceral state who relies on cries of "racism" to deflect criticism for "a massively overcrowded jail where people die every month ... Hundreds of people languishing there for months of years ... High profile cases reversed for misconduct." And yet, while I think Fleischman has made mistakes in his commentary on this case to date (e.g., when he said that staying overnight was the same thing as "cohabitating"), he also, as I noted above, said today that Willis's account of paying by cash seemed credible to him. That said, he also said today that Sadow as doing a good job on cross, whereas you found Sadow to be condescending. And Fleischman, apparently responding to a video I can't see,
said this:
"The women on MSNBC would stand up for her no matter what she did. She is a professional in this courthouse, with an important job."
Why would it be "the women" in particular who would defend Willis? That seems particularly sexist, the very kind of thing that Willis was complaining about today.