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Georgia DA Offers ‘Nothingburger’ Plea Deals To Build Parade Of Witnesses For Later Show Trials
The Federalist ^ | OCTOBER 28, 2023 | LESLIE MCADOO GORDON

Posted on 10/28/2023 3:06:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

There is no legitimate prosecutorial reason for Fani Willis to have struck these particular plea deals. They’re a means to an end.

In the past week, the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis finalized “plea agreements” with three significant members of the group of 18 co-defendants indicted in Willis’ rambling Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (“RICO”) case filed this past August against former President Donald Trump and others.

The pleas were with three prominent lawyers in the post-2020 election challenges: Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis. Each was charged with multiple felonies, including the lead RICO count, carrying potential maximum penalties of many years of incarceration. The indictment purports to allege serious felonies based on serious wrongdoing that supposedly threatened the very fabric of our democracy, but you wouldn’t think so from the actual deals Willis struck.

There is no legitimate prosecutorial reason for Willis to have struck these particular deals. Rather, these deals are designed to bolster the perceived, but not the real, strength of her case against the key defendants, both now, via the media, and later, by parading a string of “guilty” co-defendants as witnesses before the jury.

Prosecutors Dropped Charges and Jail Time Powell pleaded guilty to seven misdemeanors and no felonies, and the prosecutors moved to dismiss the seven felonies, including the RICO count they had charged against her. Chesebro pleaded guilty to one felony and the prosecutors moved to dismiss the remaining six felonies they had charged him with in the indictment, including the RICO count. Ellis pleaded guilty to a newly tailored felony count of aiding and abetting another defendant (Rudy Guiliani) in his alleged making of a false statement, and the prosecutors moved to dismiss the two felonies charged against her, including the RICO count.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bananarepublic; faniwillis; georgia; georgiaindictment; harassment; lawfare; persecution; prosecutormisconduct; trump; trumpindictment; trumppersecution
The affirmative action cancer has metastasized.
1 posted on 10/28/2023 3:06:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Messed up the link:

https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/28/georgia-da-offers-nothingburger-plea-deals-to-build-parade-of-witnesses-for-later-show-trials/


2 posted on 10/28/2023 3:08:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Interesting....

If you go on this guys Twitter page and if what he’s saying is true, then it would appear that damn near everything that Pres Trump alleged, is true. And that state governments committed crimes to influence the 2020 election.

https://twitter.com/DecentFiJC

And then of course there’s this interesting tidbit... https://tennesseestar.com/justice/explosive-testimony-from-former-wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-at-disbarment-trial-of-trumps-attorney-john-eastman/rachel-alexander/2023/09/08/

All things that happened in every state, especially the so-called ‘battleground states’.


3 posted on 10/28/2023 3:15:54 PM PDT by qaz123
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Everything Trump alleged, and some he hasn’t gotten around to talking about yet...


4 posted on 10/28/2023 3:17:03 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This case has little to no merit, but giving deals to people in exchange for light sentences and their testimony against the person at the center of the case is done all the time.

Remember the Feds gave Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, who pled guilty to being involved in 19 murders, 5 years in prison and a new identity to testify against John Gotti.


5 posted on 10/28/2023 3:25:45 PM PDT by srmanuel
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...giving deals to people in exchange for light sentences and their testimony against the person at the center of the case is done all the time.

Sounds like extortion.

6 posted on 10/28/2023 3:34:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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7 posted on 10/28/2023 3:38:51 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It probably is, but it’s done every day in State and Federal courts all over the country.

When you give someone involved in 19 murders, 5 years in jail and a new identity in exchange for their testimony against someone higher up, then anything is possible.


8 posted on 10/28/2023 3:42:28 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It is lawfare. The process is the punishment.


9 posted on 10/28/2023 3:48:21 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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"There is no legitimate prosecutorial reason for Willis to have struck these particular deals. Rather, these deals are designed to bolster the perceived, but not the real, strength of her case against the key defendants, both now, via the media, and later, by parading a string of “guilty” co-defendants as witnesses before the jury."

There's no crime, and now these 'witnesses' are free to say what they want on the stand, which is, there's no crime.

Meanwhile, remember this -- "Bucket 5" -- nope, not a six-pack of fried chicken a piece short, but close! So WatchootalkinboutWillis was unsurprisingly dumb enough to charge President Trump, by directly naming Ruby Freeman. That means, Ruby is a material witness and she will be called. Gosh, what could go wrong for Fanny?

Bucket 5: Communications Related to Ruby Freeman

Counts 20, 21, 30, and 31 all involve charges concerning efforts to supposedly influence the testimony of Ruby Freeman, who was an election worker at the State Farm Arena. Here, the theory seems to be that some of the defendants attempted to pressure Freeman to lie about what happened during the vote counting. Again, it may be left to a jury to decide this issue.

"Ruby Freeman has come under fire for the newly released videos, which appear to boldly contradict her sworn testimony to the Jan. 6 House Committee. As reported by RSBN, Freeman told officers on video that there was a likely coverup that took place in Georgia to hide election fraud, prior to her testimony in front of the House Committee.

It is serious,” she said. “It is deep. It is so real…the USB ports, I really would love to go live with that because the ballots is [sic] history…Now it’s the USB ports. So I need an attorney. I want to go live, I’ll go live on every platform because it is going to blow your mind.”

Freeman had previously been accused of taking part in fraudulent activities. Via The Georgia Record, she was seen on camera allegedly pulling boxes of mysterious ballots from under the table in Fulton County on Election Night. Freeman was also caught scanning and rescanning large stacks of ballots into a computer.

President Trump pointed out that, based on the tapes ... Freeman was ready to blow the whistle on an alleged network of fraudsters that were potentially embedded within federal agencies.

“At first she thought that they had been caught, got VERY nervous, and wanted to ‘spill the beans’ on everyone,” Trump explained in his comments."


10 posted on 10/28/2023 4:15:56 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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The list of people who explained to Ruby Freeman that the entire system was on her side - the "judges", the prosecutors, many of the state and local "Republicans" - would be very interesting indeed.

Her bank account transactions would also be very interesting.

11 posted on 10/28/2023 4:21:25 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Without affirmative action, Willis would be in a mud hut practicing voodoo witchcraft on the zombie neighbors.

But it’s Atlanta, no different than any other primitive sector in Haiti.


12 posted on 10/28/2023 4:26:02 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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Only President Trump can save us! They’re not after him - He’s just in The Way. He is being indicted for all of us. Write it on his placard - Indicted, Harassed, Charged!


13 posted on 10/28/2023 4:50:51 PM PDT by Observator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Show trial against a natural-born showman. This ought to be fun to watch.


14 posted on 10/29/2023 6:22:44 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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