BARD - The Atlanta Judge Controversy and Fallout From the Karmelo Anthony Case

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This is Beyond A Reasonable Doubt with your hosts, Mark Geragos and Gary Smith.

**Mark Geragos** (1:45)
JPS brought to you straight from New York where I can tell you, Gary, last night, the energy in this city was off the charts. I don't know that I can remember the energy in the city being similar to this in the last 50 years.

**Gary Smith** (2:03)
I mean, understandably so. It's been almost that long since they've won a championship and boy, did they do it in spectacular fashion.

**Mark Geragos** (2:12)
The only downside is I have heard a couple of people, we were talking at the park this morning, saying that it would have been great, Knicks in six, but I said, don't be, you can't be, not everything is poetry.

**Gary Smith** (2:25)
Nothing's perfect. I was commenting as I watched the game with neighbors that I would prefer that they do it at the garden because it would have been that much more electric. But, you know, I don't think anyone in New York is going to trade a championship for the opportunity for it to possibly be done somewhere else.

**Mark Geragos** (2:43)
Yeah, I was thinking about Willis Reed and the Wakers in 1973 the entire time. So it's incredible and well-deserved. And kudos to them.
We've got two stories today that I want to talk about. The first is the Atlanta Federal Judge. And do you know which story I'm talking about?

**Gary Smith** (3:06)
I do. I have no way of knowing whether or not this is a real video, but I've got it ready for you and we can play it if you'd like.

**Mark Geragos** (3:12)
Okay. So we're going to do a disclaimer at the beginning. We don't know if this is AI or not.

**Gary Smith** (3:18)
No, we don't. And I think that should just be a blanket disclaimer going forward for the world.

**Mark Geragos** (3:23)
Yes, because given where we are in 2026, I don't know that anything is real.

**Gary Smith** (3:30)
Neither do I, but here we go. So that's video that purports to show an Atlanta judge having an affair with a police officer in her chambers, and that is someone who is walking through the halls of the courtroom on their way to lunch.

**Mark Geragos** (4:05)
And apparently, we know whether or not that AI or non-AI video, we can discuss that. What we do know is that there was, what led to this is the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Federal Circuit. Now, this is not, we're not talking state court. So Atlanta's had their fair share of state court shenanigans that we have covered in the last year and a half. This was the federal district court. The 11th Circuit privately admonished a district federal Article III District Court judge.
And did it, the private admonishment meant that they did not identify who it was.
Our friend Ashley Merchant, speaking of state court, Georgia State Court shenanigans, I think, followed the breadcrumbs, connected the dots, whatever you want to, circumstantially linked it to this judge, and then went on her podcast and I believe mentioned it. And immediately the Department of Justice moved to recuse this judge on another unrelated case to, wasn't Fonny Willis or anything else, but that case got continued. She has now been identified. She sent out some letters apologizing to her clerks and apparently-