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☆ Former Trump lawyer Ellis pleads guilty in Georgia, could testify against Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Andrew Goudsward | Companies Need To Integrate Climate Reporting Across Functions To Comply With California S New Law | Henry Engler | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - A former lawyer for Donald Trump, Jenna Ellis, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to helping the then-U.S. president's efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state of Georgia and agreed to testify against Trump if called upon. "What I did not do and should have done, your honor, was to make sure that the facts the other lawyers alleged to be true were in fact true," Ellis told Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee. Ellis, 38, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting false statements and writings. Prosecutors said she attended a meeting with Georgia lawmakers where Trump personal lawyer and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani made false claims about voting irregularities. It is unclear what Powell, Chesebro and Ellis have told prosecutors or how broad their testimony could be.

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That happened Sunday when Trump posted on social media, in capital letters, that Powell “was not my attorney, and never was." Smith's indictment notes Trump privately told others that he thought her election fraud ideas sounded “crazy." Campaigning in New Hampshire on Monday, Trump appeared to refer to Powell and Cheesbro as “good people” and said prosecutors worked to “hound” and “scare” them. Steve Sadow, Trump's lead attorney in the Georgia case, expressed confidence that Powell’s plea wouldn’t hurt Trump, saying last week that any truthful testimony offered would be "favorable to my overall defense strategy." The Georgia indictment accuses Powell in a plot to illegally access a county's voting equipment.

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☆ Trump co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia case, following Sidney Powell
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro is shown in a police booking mugshot released by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, Atlanta, Aug. 23, 2023. Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro agreed to plead guilty Friday to a felony charge in the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump. Chesebro, like Powell, will be required to testify truthfully at the trials of other co-defendants in the case, including Trump, if he is asked to do so. Powell and Chesebro have both been identified as likely co-conspirators in a separate election interference case against Trump in Washington, D.C., federal court. Asked if Trump should be worried by the development in the case, Grubman said, "I don't think so."

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ATLANTA (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin Friday for the first defendant to go to trial in the Georgia case that accuses former President Donald Trump and others of illegally scheming to overturn the 2020 election in the state. CHESEBRO WILL BE TRIED BY HIMSELFUntil Thursday morning, Chesebro was set to go on trial alongside Powell after each filed a demand for a speedy trial. On Monday, prospective jurors will be called in groups of 14 for individual questioning. Then the prosecution and the defense attorneys will have one hour per group of 14 prospective jurors to ask questions. McAfee recently said he would tell prospective jurors during jury selection that it's likely to take up to five months.

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☆ Chesebro asks court to suppress use of emails in Trump Georgia election case
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

But there was "no such concern" in this case, they argued, " because months earlier Microsoft had archived all the e-mails in Fulton County Superior Court." Attorneys for Kenneth Chesebro, a pro-Trump lawyer, argued the search warrant used to obtain emails from his MSN email account ahead of his indictment "is defective" and the search and seizure of the emails was "illegal." Those two factors are "fatal to the search warrant," they argued. A spokesman for Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis, who is prosecuting Chesebro, Trump, and 17 others in the Georgia election case, declined to comment on the filings. Chesebro and Sidney Powell, another pro-Trump attorney charged in the case, were granted speedy trials.

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☆ Trump Georgia prosecutor wants 'speedy trials' done together
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The Atlanta district attorney prosecuting the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and 18 others asked a judge Tuesday to order that defendants granted so-called speedy trials be tried together. Fulton County DA Fani Willis also asked Judge Scott McAfee to set a deadline for defendants in the case to file requests to sever their cases. McAfee has discretion on whether to sever the cases for separate trials. But defendants soon could make similar speedy trial requests, which would require their trials to begin by Nov. 3. In her court filing Tuesday, Willis said she opposed, "at this juncture," severing the cases of defendants so that they would be tried either in 19 separate trials or in smaller groups.

Persons: Donald Trump, Fani Willis, Judge Scott McAfee, McAfee, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, Joe Biden, Willis, Powell's, Chesebro's Organizations: Trump Locations: Atlanta, Georgia, Fulton County, Georgia's

P01135809, according to Fulton County Jail records - was captured glaring at the camera in the mug shot. His campaign website featured the mug shot along with a message from Trump defending his actions and asking for donations. TRIAL DATE WRANGLINGWillis originally proposed a trial date of March 4 but moved it up for Chesebro after he asked that his trial start by October. In the Georgia case, Willis has requested that arraignments begin the week of Sept. 5, though defendants in Georgia are permitted to waive those appearances and plead not guilty via court filing. Trump agreed to post $200,000 bond and accepted bail conditions that would bar him from threatening witnesses or his co-defendants in the Georgia case.

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☆ Trump opposes October trial start in Georgia election case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday opposed a request by an Atlanta prosecutor that he stand trial starting Oct. 23 in his Georgia election interference criminal case. Trump attorney Steve Sadow, in a court filing, also notified a judge that Trump soon will file another motion to sever his case from co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro, who on Wednesday demanded a speedy trial in Fulton County Superior Court. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis earlier Thursday asked Judge Scott McAfee to schedule the trial of Trump, Chesebro and the 17 co-defendants to begin Oct. 23. Trump is due to surrender later Thursday to be booked in the case. Follow our live coverage of Donald Trump's arrest in the Georgia election case.

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☆ One of Trump's co-defendants just got a speedy trial date in Georgia — but Trump himself doesn't want that
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump and his Georgia co-defendants have had a strategic legal breakdown. Attorney Kenneth Chesebro, one of the 19 defendants in Trump's Georgia indictment, requested an October trial date. The move for a speedy trial may have been a bet by Chesebro that prosecutor Fani Willis wouldn't be prepared. AdvertisementAdvertisementBut Willis accepted his request for a speedy trial, proposing in a legal filing that all defendants begin the proceedings as soon as October 23. In other criminal proceedings, Trump has tried to delay trials until after the 2024 election.

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☆ Newly revealed memo details fake elector plot to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Dec. 6, 2020, memo was authored by Kenneth Chesebro, a pro-Trump attorney identified by news outlets as one of six unnamed co-conspirators in Trump's latest indictment. The Dec. 6 memo proposed that groups of "electors" in six key states that Biden won should meet and cast fake votes for Trump. Those votes would then be packaged up to resemble real electoral votes and sent to Washington. According to Chesebro's plan, then-Vice President Mike Pence could then count the Trump votes instead of the real electoral votes during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. Pence ultimately refused to reject legitimate electoral votes for Biden, resisting pressure from Trump and his allies.

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