In the wake of the 2020 election, the nation has been embroiled in a heated debate surrounding allegations of election interference. Amongst these controversies, an unexpected twist emerged from the Fulton County Racketeering case in Georgia.
Three of the 19 may have pleaded their fate with the Fulton County prosecutor as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Flea Deals pending or decided in the Fulton County Racketeering Case of Election Interference
First Up
Up first is Scott Hall is the first defendant to plead guilty.
Hall, a bail bondsman, is the first defendant to plead guilty. He tampered with electronic voting machines in Coffee County, Georgia, willfully. He worked with pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and others in that effort. Hall agreed to five years probation. He arranged for other defendants to fly to Coffee County. There, they unlawfully accessed voter data and ballot counting machines on January 7, 2021. Hall’s agreement to cooperate with the Fulton County prosecutors’ office “spells bad news” for other defendants. Hall, Misty Hampton, Sidney Powell, and Cathy Latham are the Coffee County defendants.
Possible Plea Deals
Prosecutors in Georgia say they plan to extend plea deals to lawyers Ken Chesebro and Sidney Powell, who are accused of trying to help outgoing President Donald Trump illegally cling to power after losing the 2020 election. “We have not, at this point, made an offer,” Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade told Judge Scott McAfee at a Friday court hearing, in response to a question about potential pre-trial settlements. “Is the state in a position to make one in the near future?” McAfee asked. “Judge, I believe that we can,” Wade responded. “We’ll sit down and kind of put some things together, and we’ll reach out to defense counsel individually to extend an offer.”
Chesebro and Powell were temporarily linked together as one—against both defendants’ wishes—and are set to go to trial next month after invoking their constitutional right to a speedy trial. Experts previously told The Daily Beast that avoiding the October trial would relieve prosecutors from revealing their strategy in court prior to trying Trump and his 16 remaining co-defendants, a date for which has not yet been set. Source: Cheat Sheet, Justin RohrlichReporter.
Dr. Mary Trump, defendant Trump’s niece, said more defendants will cooperate with the prosecution as time passes.
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