Georgia Judge drops 3 charges from Trump election interference case

[Ohioboy]

I heard this on the radio on my way home just now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/13/trump-georgia-election-case-charges-dropped/

ATLANTA — A Georgia judge dismissed three of the 13 charges against former president Donald Trump and some of the charges against his allies in the sweeping election inference case, but declined to dismiss the entire indictment.

In a nine-page order issued Wednesday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee dismissed six of the 41 counts in the indictment against Trump and his allies, who are accused of conspiring to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. All of the dismissed charges are related to pressure that Trump or five of his co-defendants allegedly put on state officials to change the results.

“As written, these six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes but fail to allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of their commission, i.e., the underlying felony solicited,” McAfee wrote.

The judge added: “This does not mean the entire indictment is dismissed.” McAfee pointedly declined a defense request challenging the overt acts tied to charges — meaning they are still part of the overall indictment. Prosecutors can still present evidence related to the dropped charges as they argue that Trump and his allies criminally conspired to try to overturn the election.

[Ohioboy]

1. From the article

The six counts — which also implicate former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former Trump campaign attorneys Robert Cheeley, John Eastman and Ray Smith — were related to an alleged pressure campaign against elected officials, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), members of the Georgia Senate and then-Georgia House Speaker David Ralston (R), to undo Trump’s loss in the state.

One of the three charges against Trump that was dropped was related to the phone call Trump and Meadows made to Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, in which Trump told his fellow Republican he wanted to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in Georgia — a recorded conversation that sparked the investigation into Trump and his allies when it was made public.

The second charge is related to a Dec. 7, 2020, phone call Trump made to Ralston urging him to convene a special session of the legislature to reverse Joe Biden’s narrow victory in the state. The third involves a letter Trump sent to Raffensperger in September 2021 calling on the secretary of state to overturn the election “and announce the true winner.”

Trump still faces 10 charges in the case, including violating the state racketeering act and filing false documents.

[Botany]

8. The RICO charges are still standing

And that means that all Georgia Republicans who filled out the false electoral ballots
have to come clean or face a mandatory 5 years in prison in order to protect Trump.
And Fani Willis will roll them up too.

[unweird]

2. Great, 88 Remaining Charges

That’ll thrill the hitler loving fucker.

[Walleye]

3. Did he make a ruling on keeping Fanni Willis?

[Silent Type]

4. Not yet, supposedly by Friday.

[Walleye]

10. Thank you

[Ohioboy]

5. The article says that will be announced this Friday

[Walleye]

9. Thanks

[Silent Type]

6. Weren't trump's phone calls begging to change votes the crux of the case? Bet DA refile with more details.

The phone calls were certainly the charges with the best evidence.

[Cha]

7. KR TY!

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Earlier, I Read Here In GD...

...that the ruling left open the possibility of re-indicting those charges, as the dismissal was on technical grounds or evidentiary vagueness.
IOW, the dismissal was not an exoneration.

[UTUSN]

12. Thanks for noting "3" on drumpf, media flooding "6" (overall) but callingit on drumpf