Don’t bet on it going the whole nine yards…
But after Fani Willis was taken off the case…
It IS STILL a active Criminal case in Georgia….
A State , NOT Federal Case…..
The head of an association representing state prosecutors in Georgia announced Friday that he will take over a criminal case charging President Donald Trump with conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.
The decision by longtime prosecutor Peter Skandalakis to essentially refer the case to himself comes after he struggled for months to get another district attorney in the state to agree to take over the high-profile case. The latest development has the potential to reinvigorate the long-stalled prosecution of numerous Trump allies, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, but likely means little for Trump in the short term due to protections the courts are likely to grant a sitting president.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis brought the case in August 2023, charging Trump and 18 co-defendants with involvement in a wide-ranging conspiracy to corruptly persuade George Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” about 12,000 votes in order to declare Trump the winner, to advance a slate of Trump electors despite his loss, and to tamper with election equipment. The case, in which Trump pleaded not guilty, produced Trump’s infamous mugshot….
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Trump’s lead defense lawyer in the case, Steve Sadow, expressed guarded optimism that the new prosecutor would end the case.
“This politically charged prosecution has to come to an end. We remain confident that a fair and impartial review will lead to a dismissal of the case against President Trump,” Sadow said.
The announcement of the new prosecutor for the long-stalled 2020 election case came in the same week that Trump announced pardons for all of his co-defendants in that case, as well as similar criminal cases in other states where Trump was not charged. Trump’s pardons apply only to potential federal charges, which have never been filed and seem unlikely to arise, but supporters of the pardons said they hoped the Georgia defendants and others would argue that the president’s move undercuts the state cases.
In 2021, Skandalakis was appointed to take over the prosecution of two Atlanta police officers charged in connection with the killing of Black motorist Rayshard Brooks in an altercation that stemmed from a complaint he was asleep in a car in a Wendy’s drive-through lane. Skandalakis wound up dismissing the criminal cases against both officers….
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