UPDATE: High-Powered Fulton County Attorneys Reveal WHY They Withdrew From Case

Recently, WLTR reported that two high-powered attorneys for Fulton County in Favorito v. Wan abruptly and mysteriously filed a motion to withdraw from the case.

Many speculated that it was due to the case lacking merit but now the attorneys have revealed their reason for withdrawing from the case.

According to the recent motion, the attorneys are dropping the Fulton County case because they are now representing a Trump co-defendant in the Fulton County RICO case.

Attorneys Donald Samuel and Amanda Clark will now be representing Ray Stallings Smith III in his case brought by the Fulton County DA.

Gateway Pundit writer Brian Lupo explained: “Prominent attorneys Donald Samuel and Amanda Clark Palmer have flipped from representing Fulton County’s Aaron Johnson and Teresa Crawford in Favorito et al v. Wan et al and now represent Ray Stallings Smith in the Trump RICO case. Prominent criminal defense attorneys like to win.”

Prominent attorneys Donald Samuel and Amanda Clark Palmer have flipped from representing Fulton County's Aaron Johnson and Teresa Crawford in Favorito et al v. Wan et al and now represent Ray Stallings Smith in the Trump RICO case.

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— CannCon (@CannConActual) November 15, 2023

The Garland Samuel And Loeb law firm featured bios for each attorney:

Don Samuel graduated from Oberlin College in 1975 and the University of Georgia School Of Law in 1980 (cum laude), where he was an editor of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law.

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He served as a law clerk to United States District Court Judge Harold L. Murphy (N.D.Ga.) following his graduation from law school and then joined what is now known as GARLAND, SAMUEL & LOEB, P.C. He is past-President of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (GACDL) and a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL).

In 1999, he was elected to membership in the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. In 2000, he was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers. In 2020-2022, he served on the Georgia Chief Justice Covid-19 judicial task force that advised the Chief Justice and the State Judicial Council on matters relating to the pandemic and legislation that should be enacted to address the pandemic’s impact on the judicial system.

Amanda represents clients in both criminal and civil matters in state and federal court. Her practice primarily focuses on criminal defense and she has experience defending all types of cases from DUI, to violent felonies, to white collar crime.

She has appeared in federal courts in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, New York, and Kentucky. She is admitted to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as the Court of Appeals of Georgia, and the Supreme Court of Georgia.

It was previously reported by Becker News that both high-powered attorneys dropped out of the Fulton County election case simultaneously, yet no reason was initially given for their withdrawal.

“Criminal Defense Attorneys Donald F. Samuel and Amanda R. Clark Palmer have motioned to withdraw themselves from the Favorito v. Wan case, according to the motion.” Donald Samuel and Amanda Clark Palmer need to be investigated.

— Brian Mazzola (@BrianNMazzola) November 14, 2023

Few have heard about Stallings up until this point; below is Ray Stallings Smith’s mugshot from the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.

Here’s more from the initial Becker News report:

Seventy-four of Georgia’s counties have not been able to produce original images of ballots from the November 2020 election, according to VoterGA, an election integrity nonprofit organization.

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The group received confirmation through Open Records Requests (ORRs) from 56 counties that either most or all of the images that the voting machine system automatically created for tabulating results have been destroyed.