State repeatedly tripped up by judge in Fani Willis hearing
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis arrives during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool).

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis recently asked a court in Georgia not to appoint a special master in response to her office’s repeat violations of Peach State open records laws.

As Law&Crime previously reported, those violations occurred when the prosecutor’s office, in response to open records requests, denied having any documents showing any communications with special counsel Jack Smith or members of the since-defunct House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Late last year, in response to a lawsuit filed by the conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered the district attorney’s office to provide the requested documents and/or explain its continued absence, leaving open the possibility of attorney fees.

After the prosecutor was found in default, Judicial Watch filed a separate motion asking for the court to appoint a special master to scour the agency’s files for the documents or, in the alternative to conduct an in camera inspection of the documents in question.

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