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As many of her friends are, if i knew Willis i would be disappointed in her situation here too. On the face of it i think Wade should step aside. I agree wholeheartedly with Eisen that the substance of the case is solid and too much in the public interest for it to be disrupted by this distraction. I hope McAfee feels the same.

[sortagreen]

Well, there are your qualifications

Well, given that he's so incompetent, clearly no match for ace parking lot lawyer and legal eagle extraordinaire, Alina Habba (habba habba habba. 🤪)... why are you guys trying so hard to get rid of him?
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several candidates turned her down before she enlisted Wade, an old friend who hasn’t shied away from a fight in his years as a Cobb County jurist

So them being old friends was not a secret?
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Meet the Private-Sector Litigators Helping to Bring Ga.’s Case Against Donald Trump

The team has a wide range of legal experience in civil, criminal, trial and appellate law.

August 31, 2023 at 06:34 PM



A triptych of Nathan Wade, Anna Cross and John Floyd. L-R: Judge Nathan Wade of Wade & Campbell, Anna Green of Cross Kincaid and John E. Floyd of Bondurant Mixson and Elmore. (Courtesy photos)

What You Need to Know

Lead prosecutor Nathan Wade is a Cobb County judge with a criminal defense and civil litigation practice.
Special prosecutor Anna Cross served as a metro Atlanta prosecutor for 20 years before entering private practice.
Special prosecutor John Floyd has provided outside counsel on other high-profile Ga. RICO trials.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has assembled an all-star team of private-sector litigators to aid in the prosecution of Donald Trump and allies for their conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. Willis’ team includes Anna Cross of Cross Kincaid, John Floyd of Bondurant Mixson & Elmore and lead prosecutor Nathan Wade of Wade & Campbell. Here’s a closer look at her picks.

Nathan Wade

According to the The New York Times, “finding a lead prosecutor for what would be one of the highest-profile cases in the state’s history” proved to be a challenge for Willis. The Times reported that several candidates turned her down before she enlisted Wade, an old friend who hasn’t shied away from a fight in his years as a Cobb County jurist.

Wade became the first Black male judge in Marietta when he was appointed to the city’s municipal court in 2011. From there, he went on to run in three unsuccessful bids for a seat on the Cobb County Superior Court bench between 2012 and 2016.

Two of these runs were against incumbent Judge Reuben Green, whose 2016 run was mired in controversy after a courtroom video surfaced of the judge discussing how many witnesses a prosecution team planned to call at trial without a defense lawyer present. Wade said he was originally campaigning for a vacancy that year but set his sites on Green because “there was an outcry from the legal community, and then the general public at large.”

Green ran with about one-tenth of the campaign funding of his competitor on a platform emphasizing experience and efficiency. During his campaign, he said he had 3,000 pending cases when he joined the magistrate court bench, which he whittled down to 810 in 2016.

In addition to his role as a special prosecutor in the case against Trump, Wade has a private practice that specializes in contract, family and personal injury law, as well as criminal defense. He serves as an associate municipal court judge and a pro hac state court judge in Cobb County, according to his firm’s website. Wade has also served as an assistant county solicitor.

Anna Cross

Cross is a regular face at the state Court of Appeals these days, but before she joined The Summerville Firm in 2018 and went on to found her own boutique appellate practice with Meredith Kincaid in 2022, she spent 20 years as a prosecutor in metro Atlanta.

Recently Cross was special counsel in suspended Court of Appeals Judge Christian Coomer’s judicial misconduct investigation that resulted in Coomer being removed from the bench.

According to her firm’s website, Cross is routinely brought into cases at the trial court stage to brief complex pretrial evidentiary issues, Daubert and other critical dispositive motions. She has “tried over 80 cases to verdict, briefed hundreds of cases in the Georgia Appellate Courts, and argued in the Georgia Supreme Court more than 60 times.”

Some of Cross’s victories include defending a $6.4 million birth injury judgment on appeal. She also has worked on high-profile murder cases as a prosecutor and special and appellate counsel, including a 2010 Dunwoody daycare murder conviction she helped prosecute and later secure in the state Supreme Court. Her website also sites the 1987 contract killing of Lita McClinton Sullivan (Georgia v. James Vincent Sullivan) and the 2000 murder of a Fulton County Sheriff’s Deputy (Georgia v. Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, also known as H. Rap Brown) as previous successes. Her first civil trial resulted in a $129 million verdict out of Fannin County.

“[Cross] is a rarity in that she is a phenomenal writer and appellate lawyer and also a remarkable trial attorney,” said Kincaid, Cross’ practice partner. “She’s quick on her feet with a wicked sense of humor. Anna brings out the best in those around her and approaches everything with the utmost integrity. She’s an invaluable member of any team she’s a part of.”

John Floyd

“Floyd is the nation’s leading authority on RICO,” said former DeKalb County District Attorney J. Tom Morgan, who met Floyd during his own RICO case against former DeKalb County Sherriff Sidney Dorsey for arranging the murder of his political rival 20 years ago.

Morgan said Floyd gave his team the idea to bring a RICO case against Dorsey and, while he never presented to the jury, he did a “phenomenal job” arguing motions before the court.

Willis hired Floyd on as an outside consultant in the Trump probe in March 2021, according to the Times.

According to his firm’s website, Floyd has pursued, defended and worked as special prosecutor on both state and federal RICO cases. He also works on False Claims Act cases, conducts internal investigations for institutional clients and represents plaintiffs and defense in business torts and professional liability cases.

Other notable cases Floyd has been involved with include representing the defense in a Cobb County criminal extortion case concerning a leaked sex tape featuring the former CEO of Waffle House that eventually made it to the state Supreme Court and Georgia gun firms in a criminal racketeering case against Glock in Fulton County State Court. He also served pro bono as a special assistant district attorney on the RICO case concerning the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal that ended in 2015.

“When it comes to defending a RICO indictment and all the behind-the-scenes stuff that people don’t know or care about that’s essential to the prosecutor’s case …that’s where Mr. Floyd is at his greatest,” Morgan said.

Cross, Floyd, Wade and the Fulton County District Attorney’s office did not respond to requests for comment for this article. It is unclear whether they are paid or pro bono.
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