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☆ Inside the Trump grand jury room — '40s-era furniture, linoleum-topped desks, and a looming indictment
  + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
Instead, the grand jury room where Donald Trump could become the first former president to be criminally indicted is a drab, un-Trumplike space, seemingly too ordinary for its purpose. After each presentation, she'd wait, seated on one of those same chairs, as grand jurors deliberated behind closed doors. "And yes, sometimes there are people who will drive the other 22 grand jurors crazy with off-the-wall questions." There needs to be at least 16 grand jurors present out of the originally selected 23 to have a voting quorum. The prosecutor, meanwhile, will sit on that old, uncomfortable wooden chair just outside the grand jury room, and wait for the buzzer.
☆ A juror in Georgia's Trump investigation gabbed about her experience on TV. Experts say that's actually OK.
  + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
The forewoman of Georgia's special grand jury investigating Trump gave a series of media interviews. Kohrs declined, however, to answer the question on everyone's mind: Whether the special grand jury, in its still-secret report, recommended criminal charges against Trump himself. Willis empaneled the special grand jury in May 2022. Fani Willis, right, will now choose whether to impanel an ordinary grand jury to consider charges against Trump. That extra step between Kohrs's special purpose grand jury, and another grand jury that has yet to be empaneled, is another reason why Kohrs's comments are of little consequence, Rahmani said.
☆ The Trump Grand Jury Media Tour
  + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Grand juries aren’t intended to be media spectacles, but add Emily Kohrs to the list of people who have lost their bearings in the vicinity of Donald Trump. Ms. Kohrs, age 30, was the foreperson of a Georgia special grand jury examining the possibility of criminal interference in the state’s 2020 election. The grand jury’s report hasn’t been released in full, and the public hasn’t been told whether it recommends charges against Mr. Trump, his aides, or both. Ms. Kohrs keeps teasing. As for Mr. Trump: “We definitely discussed him a lot in the room.”
☆ The forewoman of the Georgia grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election is now causing a headache for prosecutors
  + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The foreperson in the special grand jury in Georgia investigating Trump has given a media tour. Emily Kohrs, the foreperson in the grand jury, has in recent days given candid interviews about the panel's work to outlets including CNN, MSNBC and The New York Times. Kohrs was authorised to speak to the media but not to discuss details of the grand jury report. However some legal experts say that Kohrs did not break any laws in the interviews, so has not compromised the investigation. Excerpts from the grand jury's report released earlier in February revealed few details, but found that the 2020 election in Georgia had not been marred by widespread fraud, as Trump claimed.
☆ Could a Trump grand juror's comments affect possible Georgia charges?
  + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Jack Queen | Industry Insight | Recommended Change Management Practices To Plan | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
"If that (further revelations from Kohrs) occurs, then the question will be, do they have to start the grand jury process from scratch? The special grand jury heard testimony behind closed doors including from Trump allies such as Republican U.S. Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney steering the investigation, must decide whether to bring the panel's charging recommendations to a regular grand jury. "There still has to be an independent assessment by the district attorney and a subsequent grand jury who hands up the indictment," Weinstein said. "Any grand jury in Fulton County is going to have a huge diversity of viewpoints, politics and backgrounds," Cooke said.
☆ Georgia grand jury probe of Trump bid to overturn vote recommended charges - media
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Industry Insight | Recommended Change Management Practices To Plan | Build | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The foreperson of a Georgia grand jury that investigated former U.S. President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state told media on Tuesday that the panel recommended multiple criminal indictments. The foreperson of the recently concluded Fulton County, Georgia, special grand jury, Emily Kohrs, did not discuss specific charges that the grand jury in interviews with outlets including CNN and the New York Times. The special grand jury did not have the authority to issue indictments. Willis opened the special grand jury investigation shortly after Trump's January 2021 phone call to a state official asking him to "find" more votes to overturn Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory. Trump called Georgia's top election official, Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, and claimed falsely that the election results were fraudulent.
☆ Georgia sheriff is found guilty of violating the rights of detainees by strapping them into restraint chairs
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
ATLANTA — A federal jury on Wednesday returned a guilty verdict on six of seven charges against a suspended Georgia sheriff accused of violating the constitutional rights of people in his custody by unnecessarily strapping them into restraint chairs. Prosecutors said Victor Hill, who was suspended as Clayton County sheriff after his indictment last year, had detainees strapped into restraint chairs for hours even though they posed no threat and complied with deputies’ instructions. The use of the chairs was unnecessary, was improperly used as punishment and caused pain and bodily injury in violation of the civil rights of seven men, prosecutors argued. Defense attorneys asserted that Hill used the restraint chair legally to maintain order at the jail and didn’t overstep his lawful authority. Their verdict — guilty of violating the civil rights of six of the seven detainees — came Wednesday afternoon, news outlets reported.
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