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Pete Skandalakis and the Tale of Two Politically Charged Cases

Inheritance by Fire

When Pete Skandalakis stepped into the Rayshard Brooks case in 2020, he did not inherit a neutral file. He inherited a fire.

The summer had already scorched Atlanta: Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, was shot in the parking lot of a Wendy’s after a DUI stop escalated into a struggle. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard, facing reelection, charged officer Garrett Rolfe with felony murder and officer Devin Brosnan with aggravated assault. The charges were sweeping, the city was raw, and the case became a symbol of the national reckoning over policing. read more

How Money and Sex Derailed the Trump Prosecution in Georgia

Fani’s Folly

In the annals of prosecutorial missteps, few have unraveled with the operatic flair of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s fall from the Trump case. What began as a historic indictment—charging Donald Trump and 18 others with racketeering for their alleged efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results—has now been eclipsed by a scandal of intimacy, impropriety, and institutional consequence. read more

Fani’s Fanny Is in a Pickle

Firing Nathan Wade Would Preserve the Integrity of Her Office

News broke two weeks ago that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was embroiled in the divorce of Jocely and Nathan Wade, which sent shockwaves throughout the country.

“Scandalous,” my grandmother would have exclaimed at hearing these salacious allegations about the country’s most potent female district attorney. read more

Judge Ural Glanville Managing Young Thug RICO Trial on CP Time

Are Glanville’s Military Duties Getting in the Way of Justice

It is well settled in the Black community that Black people operate on a different sense of time. Perhaps it has something to do with our understanding of rhythm. Black people, after all, move and dance in between the beats, while Whites, by and large, roll on the beat. It is often referred to as C. P. T. or Colored People’s Time to explain why Black people tend to arrive late for a gathering. read more