Six Counts Quashed in the Fulton County Case
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On March 13, Judge McAfee released an order quashing six counts in the Fulton County electoral interference indictment against former President Trump and his numerous co-defendants. These charges were related to alleged solicitation of violations of oath of office, and Judge McAfee quashed the charges due to insufficient evidence.
To talk over the order and its implications, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow Anna Bower and Anthony Michael Kreis for a live recording of the Lawfare Podcast on YouTube. They talked about what exactly a demurrer is and what led Judge McAfee to dismiss these counts. They also talked about what this order could say about how Judge McAfee might rule on the efforts to disqualify Fani Willis, whether it matters that these charges were dismissed, and whether the District Attorney will go back to a grand jury.
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| 1:13.8 | review if you want to kick this up to the appellate court to see if this is |
| 1:17.6 | sufficient but I think what we're going to just see is is Fawnee Willis go back to |
| 1:22.4 | the grand jury, get the constitutional theory button down, and then bring these |
| 1:27.4 | charges again and go from there. |
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| 1:34.2 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the law fair podcast March 14th, |
| 1:38.6 | 2024. Yesterday on March 13th, Judge Scott McAfee released an order quashing six counts of the Fulton |
| 1:48.0 | County electoral interference indictment against former President Trump and his numerous co-defendants. |
| 1:55.2 | These charges related to allegations of soliciting violations of officials' oath of office. |
| 2:02.3 | Judge McAfee ruled that the charges were not pled with sufficient |
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