Ashleigh Service provider is a lawyer representing Michael Roman, a former marketing campaign official for former President Donald J. Trump and a co-defendant dealing with felony costs within the Georgia election interference case.
Ms. Service provider, who was not too long ago elected president of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, owns a private practice along with her husband. She was beforehand a public defender in Fulton County for a number of years.
In early January, Ms. Service provider filed courtroom paperwork accusing Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district legal professional, of participating in a “clandestine” relationship with Nathan J. Wade, the particular prosecutor she employed in 2021 to assist with the case in opposition to Mr. Trump and his allies.
Ms. Service provider has argued that the connection between Mr. Wade and Ms. Willis ought to disqualify them, in addition to Ms. Willis’s complete workplace, from prosecuting the case, citing a battle of curiosity. She claimed that Ms. Willis was profiting financially from the prosecution, accusing her of taking holidays with Mr. Wade with cash he had made working for her.
Ms. Willis admitted to a relationship with Mr. Wade in February however argued that it was not a cause to disqualify her or her workplace from the case. She and Mr. Wade have additionally mentioned they cut up prices for personal journey.
Within the courtroom filings, Ms. Service provider mentioned that Mr. Wade was unqualified for the function. However in 2016, she praised Mr. Wade’s “sturdy authorized background” on Fb, when she was supporting him in considered one of his failed bids to be elected as a Superior Court docket choose. In one other submit, a photograph confirmed her posing in a Wade marketing campaign T-shirt.
Requested in regards to the posts, Ms. Service provider mentioned not too long ago that Mr. Wade “was essentially the most certified candidate in that race.”
Earlier than the Thursday listening to, Ms. Service provider despatched subpoenas demanding that Mr. Wade, Ms. Willis and several other witnesses testify relating to the connection between the prosecutors. It’s unclear whether or not the choose will enable her to place them on the stand.
Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim contributed reporting.
