Driven by a motion that Trump campaign operative Michael Roman filed last month, the defence has sought a Georgia judge to remove Willis and Wade from the case.
A tense hearing on Thursday was held to decide if the district attorney's office in Fulton County should be barred from prosecuting former US President Donald Trump.
Fani Willis, the District Attorney for Fulton County (D), unexpectedly took the witness stand to defend her close relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
Willis, knowing that her reputation was at stake, did not hold back in her endeavor to convince Judge Scott McAfee that no moral boundaries had been exceeded.
the defence has sought a Georgia judge to remove Willis and Wade from the case on the grounds that their association makes the 98-page racketeering indictment "fatally defective."