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On October 3, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that several other defendants, including Mike Roman, had rejected similar plea deals.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hallerman |first=Tamar |date=October 3, 2023 |title=Fulton prosecutors float plea deals to Trump defendants |language=English |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/fulton-prosecutors-float-plea-deals-to-trump-defendants/76Q5JTJHXVHHFPVYEW6YWORZO4/ |access-date=2023-10-05 |issn=1539-7459}}</ref>
On October 3, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that several other defendants, including Mike Roman, had rejected similar plea deals.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hallerman |first=Tamar |date=October 3, 2023 |title=Fulton prosecutors float plea deals to Trump defendants |language=English |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/fulton-prosecutors-float-plea-deals-to-trump-defendants/76Q5JTJHXVHHFPVYEW6YWORZO4/ |access-date=2023-10-05 |issn=1539-7459}}</ref>

On October 20, Kenneth Chesebro plead guilty in a plea deal on Count 15, which is conspiracy to commit filing false documents.


== Trials ==
== Trials ==

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The State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump, et al. is a pending criminal case against Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, and 18 co-defendants. The prosecution alleges that Trump led a "criminal racketeering enterprise", in which he and all other defendants "knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome" of the 2020 U.S. presidential election in Georgia. All defendants are charged with one count of violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute, which has a penalty of five to twenty years in prison. The indictment comes in the context of Trump's broader effort to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election. It is one of four ongoing criminal indictments against Trump.

Defendants are variously charged with forty additional counts from other allegations, including: Trump and co-defendants plotted to create pro-Trump slates of fake electors; Trump called the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, asking him to "find 11,780 votes", which would have reversed his loss in the state by a single vote margin; and a small group of Trump allies in Coffee County, Georgia, illegally accessed voting systems attempting to find evidence of election fraud.

A grand jury handed up the indictments on August 14, 2023, following an investigation launched in February 2021 by Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis.[1] Two defendants have pleaded guilty,[2] and the rest have pleaded not guilty.[3] The case is set to be heard in the Fulton County Superior Court with judge Scott McAfee presiding.[4] Another judge denied requests from former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, former Department of Justice (DOJ) official Jeffrey Clark, and three other defendants to have their cases removed to federal court.[5]

Background

Further information: Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election § Background

Prior to and during election day

Weeks before the 2016 presidential election, Trump claimed through a series of tweets that widespread voter fraud was imminent, a sentiment echoed by his legal advisor, Rudy Giuliani.[6] Trump repeated the accusations throughout his presidency and into his 2020 reelection campaign; for months, he prepared arguments in the event of his loss, primarily relating to mail-in ballots.[7] As early as August 2020, he enlisted conservative activist and lawyer Cleta Mitchell to help overturn the election.[8] Two days before Election Day (November 3, 2020), he told reporters that he would be "going in with [his] lawyers" as soon as the election was over.[9]

On Election Day, preliminary surveys at polling places showed Trump in the lead as his supporters were more likely to turn out in person amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but his lead diminished as mail-in ballots were counted.[10] At the behest of Giuliani, Trump declared in a 2 a.m. election night speech in the East Room that he had won the election and that the counts being reported were fraudulent.[11] As ballots were being counted, campaign data expert Matt Oczkowski bluntly informed Trump that he was going to lose the election. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone told him that invalidating the results of the election would be a "murder-suicide pact".[12] Under then-attorney general William Barr, the Department of Justice failed to find widespread voter fraud in the election.[13]

Former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich predicted that Trump voters would erupt in "rage",[14] a sentiment shared by House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who told Laura Ingraham on The Ingraham Angle that Republicans should "not be silent about this".[15]

Efforts to pressure Georgia state officials

Further information: Trump–Raffensperger phone call and Jeffrey Clark letter

On December 3, 2020, a 7-hour hearing of the Georgia Senate Committee on the Judiciary heard Trump's legal team, including Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, made false claims alleging fraud and misconduct in the state's election process, and that the Georgia legislature had the power to appoint electors for Trump.[16][17] A similar presentation was made to the Georgia House of Representatives Committee on Governmental Relations.

On December 7, Trump called Georgia House Speaker David Ralston asking him to convene a special session of the state legislature to overturn the Georgia election results.[18]

In late December 2020 and early January 2021, Jeffrey Clark, the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division and acting for the DOJ Civil Division, drafted a letter to Georgia officials stating the DOJ had "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States," urging the Georgia legislature to convene a special session for the "purpose of considering issues pertaining to the appointment of Presidential Electors." Clark presented the draft letter to acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and his deputy Richard Donoghue for their signatures; they rejected the proposal and the letter was never sent.[19][20][21][22][23][24][25]

Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to change the state's election results during an hour-long conference call on January 2, 2021.[26] Trump told Raffensperger, "What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than [the 11,779-vote margin of defeat] we have, because we won the state."[27]

On September 17, Trump wrote to Raffensperger, alleging that 43,000 ballots in DeKalb County had been mishandled and that Raffensperger should "start the process of decertifying the election, or whatever the correct legal remedy is, and announce the true winner." In the 2023 Georgia indictment, the 38th and 39th counts address this act.[28]

Creation of false electoral vote documents

Further information: Trump fake electors plot

The plan to recruit false electors for Donald Trump and pressure public officials to accept them was spearheaded by Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman in support of the Trump campaign and with the awareness of Trump himself, although other campaign staff expressed doubts about the plan. The plan led to false documents being produced in seven states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.[29][30][31]

As is typical, the 16 potential electors for Trump in Georgia were chosen before the election. After Biden won the election, and days before the scheduled casting of electoral votes, the Republican electors received calls asking them to come to the Georgia State Capitol to cast "alternate" ballots, ostensibly in case Texas v. Pennsylvania was ruled in favor of Trump. However, that case was thrown out on December 11, 2020, three days before the electoral vote was to occur, a fact that was withheld from most of the fake electors by Giuliani and Kenneth Chesebro. Four members of the Republican electoral slate declined to participate, including former U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, and were replaced.[32]

Georgia fake electors convened in a meeting room at the state Capitol at the same time the true electors were meeting in the state Senate chamber.[32] State senator Shawn Still verified fake electors' identities as they entered the room, but the meeting was reportedly open to the public, and video was posted that day.[33] Unlike some other states, the Georgia false certificate of ascertainment did not contain language specifying it was to be used only if the Trump campaign prevailed in litigation (one state case, Trump v. Raffensperger, was still pending at the time). The falsified documents were then sent to the U.S. Senate and the National Archives by Giulianni and Chesebro's team.[32]

Coffee County election equipment breach

In the weeks after the election, Trump and his associates attacked the electronic voting company Dominion Voting Systems. In particular, they claimed that ballots were being altered in a process known as "adjudication", intended to resolve minor errors. Trump asserted that human operators could switch Trump-intended votes to Biden votes.[34]

On January 7, someone who had posed as a fake elector, and who had communicated with the Coffee County elections supervisor about election office access, escorted two Trump operatives into the office, which was captured on surveillance video. Allegedly assisted by employees of the data forensics firm SullivanStrickler, they copied data from voting equipment.[35] In a recorded phone conversation, Atlanta Trump supporter Scott Hall recalled that the team "scanned every freaking ballot", including equipment and that they had "imaged all the hard drives" used on Election Day.[36] The Washington Post reported in September 2023 that during the weeks following the 2020 election Hall had conversations with leaders of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. Georgia prosecutors said Hall had a 63-minute phone conversation with Jeffrey Clark on January 2, 2021.[37]

January 19 text messages between two men hired by the Trump legal team show intent to use the data to decertify the Georgia presidential results as well as the 2021 Georgia runoff election. The texts were between Sidney Powell associate Jim Penrose, a former National Security Agency official, and Doug Logan, whose firm Cyber Ninjas later ran the 2021 Maricopa County presidential ballot audit.[a][38]

The firm SullivanStrickler was subpoenaed by the special grand jury convened in this case in 2022.[39] The company has insisted it is "politically agnostic" and had simply accepted paid work as a third-party contractor for the Trump campaign.[40] During the investigation, the two Trump operatives admitted that Sidney Powell had sent them and that they had accessed a voting machine inside the building. Cathy Latham, one of the fake electors who had escorted them into the building, invoked the Fifth Amendment.[35]

Of the 18 co-defendants indicted on August 14, 2023, four—Powell, Hampton, Latham, and Hall—are charged in the Coffee County breach.[41]

Harassment of Fulton County election workers

After the election, Trump and Giuliani amplified a video that was taken out of context, and used the footage to make baseless claims that Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea "Shaye" Moss had committed election fraud. Giuliani accused them of "passing around USB ports as if they were vials of heroin or cocaine" and engaging in "surreptitious illegal activity", citing video footage that, according to Moss, actually showed the women with "a ginger mint".[42] The women and their family members were subjected to anti-Black racist smears and death threats and were warned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that they would not be safe in their home.

Freeman and Moss sued Giuliani for defamation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in December 2021.[43][44] Giuliani was ordered to pay $89,000 in attorney's fees to them in July 2023 after being sanctioned for failing to turn over evidence in the case.[45] Giuliani admitted his statements had been "defamatory per se" yet denied they had caused "any damages," on July 25.[46] The judge entered a default judgment on August 30 against Giuliani due to his failure to produce subpoenaed documents.[47]

Moss testified in a June 2022 public hearing before the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack that after Giuliani's remarks she and her family were subjected to a barrage of racist threats, including "Be glad it's 2020 and not 1920," in reference to lynching in the United States.[48] During her testimony, Freeman said "There is nowhere I feel safe. Nowhere. Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you?"[49][50] Moss said that the false accusations made against her had impacted her well-being "in a major way—in every way—all because of lies."[51]

Indictment

An Euler diagram of categories of charges faced by each defendant
The indictment
The indictment document

A grand jury indicted Trump and 18 other defendants on August 14, 2023.[52][53] The indictment mentions 30 unindicted co-conspirators.[b][55]

Charges

The criminal charges fall into several clusters:

Defendants

Main article: List of alleged Georgia election racketeers

The 19 defendants named in the indictment are listed in the following tables. Conspiracy charge counts are in italics. Attempt charge counts are underlined. Note that Latham is listed separately in two of the tables, but her total includes charges from both tables together.[57][58]

Electoral vote obstruction charges
Name Function RICO (1) Solicitation of public officer (6) False statements (14) Impersonating a public officer (2) Forgery (4) Filing false docu­ments (3) Perjury (1) Total
GA SoS GA SoS DA docs
Donald Trump President of the United States 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 1+1 13
Rudy Giuliani lawyer 1 3 3 2 1 2 1 13
Ray Smith III lawyer 1 3 2 2 1 2 1 12
Cathy Latham* fake elector, Coffee County GOP leader 1* 1 1 1 1 11*
Robert Cheeley lawyer 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 10
John Eastman lawyer 1 1 2 1 2 1+1 9
David Shafer fake elector, state GOP chair 1 1 2 1 2 1 8
Kenneth Chesebro lawyer 1 2 1 2 1 7
Mike Roman campaign staff 1 2 1 2 1 7
Shawn Still fake elector, state senator 1 2 1 2 1 7
Jenna Ellis lawyer 1 1 2
Mark Meadows White House chief of staff 1 1 2
Jeffrey Clark U.S. DoJ official 1 1 2
# of people charged 13 6 2 4 1 1 10 10 10 10 1
Coffee County election equipment breach charges
Name Function RICO (1) Election fraud (2) Computer crimes (3) Defrauding the state (1) Total
Cathy Latham* Coffee County GOP leader, fake elector 1* 2 3 1 11*
Scott Hall bail bondsman 1 2 3 1 7
Misty Hampton Coffee County elections supervisor 1 2 3 1 7
Sidney Powell campaign lawyer 1 2 3 1 7
# of people charged 3 4 4 4
Fulton County election worker harassment charges
Name Function RICO (1) Solicitation of false statements (1) Influencing witnesses (3) Total
Steve Lee pastor from Illinois 1 1 1+2 5
Harrison Floyd Black Voices for Trump leader 1 1 1 3
Trevian Kutti publicist from Chicago 1 1 1 3
# of people charged 3 3 3

There is overlap with the co-conspirators mentioned in the federal indictment of Trump issued two weeks earlier. In the federal indictment, Giuliani was listed as co-conspirator No. #1, Eastman was #2, Powell was #3, Clark was #4, and Chesebro was #5. All five of these people, though not charged in the federal prosecution, are charged as co-defendants in the Georgia prosecution.[c]

The indictment references 30 "unindicted co-conspirators" who allegedly participated in some of the same criminal activities with the 19 defendants. These 30 people are not named in the indictment, but referred to by number. CNN, Just Security, The Washington Post and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution independently cross-referenced details in the indictment with already public information which does name the involved individuals, allowing many of them to be identified. Notable unindicted co-conspirators include Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, Trump and Giuliani associate Boris Epshteyn, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, GOP political operative Phil Waldron, and current Lt. Governor of Georgia Burt Jones.[59][60][61][62]

Of the 16 fake Georgia electors, three fake electors are named as defendants in the present indictment, four have been identified with a specific unindicted co-conspirator description, and nine are not conclusively tied to a specific unindicted co-conspirator description.[59][60][63][64]

Initial proceedings

Surrender and booking

After the grand jury issued arrest warrants for all 19 defendants per normal procedure, Willis provided the co-defendants an opportunity to voluntarily surrender by noon on August 25.[57] All did so,[65] and all but Floyd were immediately released on bond.[66] The defendants surrendered to Fulton County Jail on these dates:

  • August 22: Eastman[67] and Hall[68]
  • August 23: Shafer, Latham,[69] Smith, Chesebro,[70] Giuliani, Powell, and Ellis[71]
  • August 24: Trump, Meadows,[72] and Floyd[70]
  • August 25: Roman, Clark, Still, Hampton, Cheeley,[73] Kutti,[74] and Lee[65]

Trump agreed to a $200,000 bond on August 21. His pre-negotiated release conditions include only using attorneys to discuss the case with co-defendants or witnesses and not intimidating co-defendants, unindicted co-conspirators, or witnesses on social media.[75][76] When he surrendered, he used a bail bondsman to post his bail.[77] Trump's mug shot was taken,[78] a procedure not required in his previous indictments.[79] Trump self-reported to authorities a height of 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) and a weight of 215 pounds (98 kg); four months earlier, he told New York authorities he was 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) and 240 pounds (110 kg).[80]

Floyd did not negotiate a bond agreement prior to his surrender and was instead booked, then jailed. While in jail, he refused a consent bond offered by Willis's office.[81] In a court hearing on August 25, he was denied bond, being deemed a flight risk due to a pending case against him in Maryland for misdemeanor assault on an FBI agent. He told the court that he was unable to afford a lawyer and ineligible for a court-appointed one.[70][82] Floyd's bond was set at $100,000 on August 29, and he was released the next day.[81][83][84]

Giuliani had his bond set at $150,000; Chesebro, Clark, Eastman, Ellis, Floyd, Meadows, and Powell at $100,000; Kutti, Latham, Lee, and Shafer at $75,000; Cheeley, Roman, and Smith at $50,000; and Hall, Hampton, and Still at $10,000.[d][70][85]

Arraignments

The arraignment was scheduled for September 6, but all 19 defendants waived their right to appear for their arraignment and pleaded not guilty on the following dates:

  • August 28: Smith[86]
  • August 29: Powell and Kutti[87]
  • August 31: Trump and Ellis[88]
  • September 1: Giuliani, Chesebro, Cheeley, Lee, Roman, Floyd, and Hall[89] (On September 29, Hall changed his plea to guilty.[90])
  • September 5: Meadows, Eastman, Clark, Latham, Still, Shafer and Hampton[91]

Pretrial motions

In the same August 16 court filing, Willis motioned for all defendants to be tried together beginning March 4, 2024. The filing said that the schedule had been chosen so as not to conflict with Trump's already-scheduled court dates in other matters, "but also to protect the State of Georgia's and the public's interest in a prompt resolution of the charges". The requested trial date is nearly two months into the 2024 Republican Party presidential primary season, and one day before Super Tuesday. Former U.S. Attorney for Georgia Michael J. Moore expressed doubt that the motions and discovery process would be completed so quickly, and that Willis actually believed the case would be ready by March. "I think it's just a PR move," he said.[92]

On August 19, Meadows submitted a motion to have the case dismissed entirely, arguing that "[t]he State's prosecution of Mr. Meadows threatens the important federal interest in providing the President of the United States with close, confidential advice and assistance, firmly entranced in federal law for nearly 100 years." The motion also argues that Meadows is immune under the First Amendment, protecting political speech, and the Fourteenth Amendment, prohibiting charges arising from statutes that are "unconstitutionally vague". In addition, since the Georgia indictment charges Meadows for his actions in other states, the motion raises the possibility that any state could therefore prosecute him for his activities in Georgia, the implications of which "are staggering".[93]

On the morning of August 24, before Trump's planned surrender, paperwork was filed to have Steven Sadow take over from Drew Findling as Trump's lead counsel.[94][95] On September 11, Trump filed to ask for several charges to be dismissed.[96]

On September 14, Judge McAfee set a deadline of December 1, 2023 for any pre-trial motions by the defense of the remaining 17 co-defendants (Chesebro and Powell excluded).[97]

Powell said the review of the voting system had been legal because Coffee County authorized it.[98] On October 5, McAfee denied Powell's motion to dismiss the charges; he said he had no authority to do that so close to her trial.[99]

On October 10, Willis argued that Chesebro's five memos should not be protected by attorney-client privilege (as his attorneys had requested on September 21)[100] since they did not contain advice about litigation but rather a political strategy for interrupting the transfer of power to Biden.[101]

On October 11, Chesebro and Powell's lawyers argued that their clients should not face the RICO charge.[102] Chesebro argued that the pro-Trump electors were indeed public officers under federal law, not merely impersonating public officers, and that he therefore could not have conspired in their impersonation. On October 17, Judge McAfee said he would not dismiss the charges. He said that, although Chesebro may disagree with "the state's legal interpretation," the charges were not "defective."[103][104]

Attempts to remove to federal court

Five defendants asked the federal U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to move their cases to federal court. This is called "removal." Though all charges would remain under Georgia state law, the consequences of removal would include widening the geographic range of the jury pool and prohibiting cameras in the courtroom.[105] District Court Judge Steve C. Jones presided over all five hearings. All five defendants' motions to remove were denied in September 2023.[5]

On August 15, the day after the indictment, Meadows filed a motion to have his case removed to federal court, arguing that he is immune to state prosecution for any activities performed during his tenure as White House Chief of Staff under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.[e] Meadows's removal hearing was on August 28.[106] On September 8, Judge Jones rejected Meadows's request, finding he had not met even the "quite low' threshold for removal. Meadows immediately appealed the ruling to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and asked Jones for an emergency stay of his Georgia case while his appeal was pending.[107] On September 12, Jones rejected Meadows's request to pause his case.[108]

On August 21, Clark also filed a motion to remove his case to federal court.[f] Clark claimed the same protections from state prosecution as Meadows, as Clark was a Justice Department official at the time. His filing additionally argued that the entire case should be removed to federal court for all defendants.[109][110] Clark's removal hearing was on September 18.[111] On September 29, Jones rejected the motion.[5] On October 9, Clark appealed.[112]

Jones denied requests from Meadows and Clark to delay their arrests, so they surrendered to the Georgia court before their removal requests were heard.[113][114][115]

Defendants Shafer,[g] Latham,[h] and Still[i] filed motions in August to remove the case to federal court.[116] They asserted in these filings that they had convened as alternate electors "at the direction of" Trump via his attorneys, making them federal officials.[117][118] At a hearing on September 20, 2023, their lawyers argued that the Electoral Count Act of 1887 legally allowed the casting of contingent electoral ballots because a Georgia state court case was still pending past the specified safe harbor date, six days before the electoral vote date.[119][120] On September 29, Jones rejected the motion, noting that federal law does not in fact explicitly create the position of contingent elector.[5] On October 6, Shafer, Latham, and Still appealed.[112]

Though Trump had formally indicated he might seek removal to federal court,[121] he told the court on September 28, the day before his deadline to seek removal, that he would not do so.[122]

Speedy trial and severance requests

On August 23, Chesebro requested a quick trial under Georgia's Speedy Trial Act. The judge set his trial for October 23, taking Willis's suggestion. (Willis additionally asked to try all 19 defendants speedily together on this date, but the judge did not immediately address her request.)[123][124] On August 25, Powell also requested a speedy trial.[125]

On September 6, a hearing, the first televised one in the case, was held to address their requests to sever their cases from each other and from the other defendants. (Powell asserted she had "no substantive connection" with any other defendant.)[126][127][128] Judge McAfee denied the Chesebro and Powell motions to sever from each other,[129] and Powell's trial was set for the same day as Chesebro's.[130] On September 29, special prosecutor Nathan Wade told McAfee that the DA's office would extend plea deals to Chesebro and Powell.[131] Powell accepted a deal on October 19.[132]

Trump advised the court on August 24 that he opposed a speedy trial.[133][134] He filed a motion to sever on August 31.[135]

Meadows has said he wants to be tried alone.[136]

Guilty pleas

Name Guilty plea Must testify truthfully regarding defendants No speaking to witnesses, defendants, or media Must publicly apologize Sentence
Scott Hall September 29, 2023
Yes
Yes
Yes
 Five years of probation, $5,000 fine, 200 hours of community service[2]
Sidney Powell October 19, 2023
Yes
Yes
Yes
 Six years of probation, $6,000 fine, $2,700 restitution[132][137][138]

Hall and Powell had each originally been charged with seven felonies related to the Coffee County election equipment breach.[139][140] These felony charges were dropped when they instead pleaded guilty to misdemeanors: Hall to five counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with the performance of election duties[90] and Powell to six counts of intentionally interfering with the performance of election duties.[132]

Powell worked closely with the Trump campaign's legal team during the post-election period, and thus many people anticipate that she has significant information about Trump and Giuliani.[141] She is required to testify about the defendants, yet she may be able to plead the Fifth in response to some questions to avoid self-incrimination. (Although she no longer faces charges in Georgia, she may eventually face federal charges; the federal indictment for election obstruction describes her as Co-conspirator No. 3.)[142]

On October 3, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that several other defendants, including Mike Roman, had rejected similar plea deals.[143]

On October 20, Kenneth Chesebro plead guilty in a plea deal on Count 15, which is conspiracy to commit filing false documents.

Trials

Unlike the proceedings in Trump's other three indictments where photography was not permitted, the Georgia proceedings will be livestreamed on YouTube and journalists will be allowed to use their phones in the courtroom.[144][145] However, the juries will remain anonymous at least until the end of trial[146] and will have security.[147]

Chesebro and Powell

Chesebro will be tried beginning on October 23, 2023. The trial is expected to last several months.[104]

Sidney Powell was to share his trial date, but she pleaded guilty on October 19, one day before jury selection was to begin.[132]

On September 15, Judge McAfee ordered that 450 potential jurors should appear on October 20 and another 450 on October 27, in order to have the jury sworn in by November 3.[148] Prosecutors have filed to seek testimony from Boris Epshteyn, Lin Wood, several GOP officials in other states,[149] conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.[150] Jones's attorney said he would plead the Fifth.[151]

Others

In early September, while discussing whether all defendants could be tried together on the expedited date given to Chesebro and Powell, prosecutors estimated that a 19-defendant proceeding would involve a lengthy jury selection followed by a four-month trial that called 150 witnesses. Judge McAfee responded that he expected such a trial would take longer[152] and later confirmed that the other defendants would not share Chesebro and Powell's trial date.[153][154]

As of mid-October, trial dates for the others have not been set.[155]

Hall and Powell will not be tried because they have pleaded guilty.

Reactions

U.S. House Republicans opened an investigation into Willis hours before Trump surrendered for arrest. Congressman Jim Jordan wrote her asking if she had coordinated with the Smith special counsel investigation or used federal money in her investigation. Jordan demanded Willis provide documents and communications by September 7.[156][157] Willis wrote to Jordan on September 7 that his letter contained "inaccurate information and misleading statements," alleging he was seeking to "obstruct a Georgia criminal proceeding and to advance outrageous misrepresentations" without constitutional authority, for his personal political gain.[158]

Some Georgia Republican legislators, notably state senator Colton Moore, proposed convening a special legislative session to consider impeaching Willis. Such a move would require consent of Democrats, and Republican governor Brian Kemp said he opposed it to prevent "political theater that only inflames the emotions of the moment" and "some grifter scam" to raise campaign contributions for Moore.[159]

In May 2023, Georgia Republicans enacted a law that created a commission empowered to discipline or remove state prosecutors who were alleged to have violated their duties. As he signed the bill creating the commission, Governor Kemp said it would curb "far-left prosecutors" who are "making our communities less safe." Days after the Willis indictments, state senator Chad Dixon announced he would file a complaint against Willis when the commission commenced in October, alleging she had weaponized the justice system against political opponents with an "unabashed goal to become some sort of leftist celebrity."[160][161] Hours after the commission became effective on October 1, eight Republican Georgia senators filed a complaint seeking to have Willis sanctioned for her alleged "improperly cherry-picked cases to further her personal political agenda."[162]

On September 14, 2023, one of the defendants, Jenna Ellis, said she would not support Trump for office again because he does not accept responsibility for his wrongdoings.[163]

On September 15, 2023, a three-judge panel ruled that Shawn Still would not lose his state senate seat as a result of the charges.[164]

Notes

  1. ^ Penrose and Logan were investigated but not indicted by special prosecutor D.J. Hilson in Michigan.
  2. ^ Unnamed, though some are identifiable.[54]
  3. ^ Co-conspirator #6 in the federal indictment has not yet been conclusively identified.
  4. ^ Hampton and Still's bonds are signature bonds.
  5. ^ State v. Meadows, 1:23-cv-03621 (N.D. Ga.)
  6. ^ State v. Clark, 1:23-cv-03721 (N.D. Ga.)
  7. ^ State v. Shafer, 1:23-cv-03720 (N.D. Ga.)
  8. ^ State v. Latham, 1:23-cv-03803 (N.D. Ga.)
  9. ^ State v. Still, 1:23-cv-03792 (N.D. Ga.)

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