The Smell of Men­dac­i­ty Down in Geor­gia

“What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, B rick? Didn’t you notice a pow­er­ful and obnox­ious odor of men­dac­i­ty in this room? There ain’t noth­in’ more pow­er­ful than the odor of men­dac­i­ty. You can smell it. It smells like death.”– (Big Dad­dy in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”)
Court deci­sions can sound com­pli­cat­ed because they some­times con­tain legal lan­guage that is dif­fi­cult for a layper­son to under­stand. That’s not the sit­u­a­tion in the case of Ful­ton Coun­ty, Georgia’s Dis­trict Attor­ney Fani Willis and spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor Nathan Wade. Judge Scott McAfee gave Willis a choice – either dump Wade, with whom she’d had a r …