Fani Willis

A judge in Georgia who is expected in coming days to determine whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ personal relationship with a special prosecutor she hired to assemble an election interference case against President Trump corrupted the legal filings has taken an intermediate step by tossing some of her counts.

Judge Scott McAfee issued an order Wednesday killing six counts in Willis’ case against Trump and some 18 other defendants.

He explained the state failed to meet the legal requirements for charges by failing to claim sufficient detail for the six counts he dismissed – involving “solicitation of violation of oath by public officer.”

The judge’s ruling said his “concern is less that the state has failed to allege sufficient conduct of the defendants – in fact it has alleged an abundance. However, the lack of detail concerning an essential legal element is, in the undersigned opinion, fatal.”