Terrence Bradley – who faces a credible threat of criminal charges from DA Willis’s office regarding allegations of sexual assault – did not disappoint Fani Willis. It wasn’t a great day for the defense. But it wasn’t a bad day, either.
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To summarize Bradley’s testimony today: he speculated about the start of the relationship, only had one meeting with Wade about the relationship, and has no personal knowledge as to when the relationship started. All of that, of course, was contradicted by his prior representations to Ms. Merchant.
And so what we saw from Bradley today was nothing short of deception.
Bradley relied on conveniently poor memory to evade direct questions on when the Willis-Wade relationship began, and provided an equally unpersuasive argument on why he made those representations - the ones detrimental to DA Willis and Nathan Wade - via text. His answers were preceded by long pauses as Bradley thought of what he needed to say. Many times during his testimony he would ask for the question to be repeated, as if to give himself more time to deliberate before he spoke.
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