Trump Georgia Case: Kenneth Chesebro Takes Last Minute Plea Deal
Sidney Powell took a plea deal yesterday.
Attorney Kenneth Chesebro has taken a last minute plea deal in President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Fulton, GA:
Chesebro, an attorney, was facing seven counts after prosecutors said he drafted a strategy to use so-called “alternate electors” to prevent Joe Biden from receiving 270 electoral votes in the 2020 election, according to the Fulton County DA’s indictment.
The plea comes a day after former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell took a plea deal in which she received probation in exchange for agreeing to testify in the case.
Powell and Chesebro were both originally scheduled to go to trial next week after both demanded speedy trials.
Chesebro does not face any jail time. He could have received five years for pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to file false documents. He got five years of probation and 100 hours of community service.
Chesebro also must pay $5,000 in restitution and write a letter of apology.
The trial for Powell and Chesebro should have started today.
Georgia businessman Scott Hall took a plea deal in September.
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Say cheese!
What did he plea to? Misdemeanor?!?!
Drafted a strategy? Drafted? It must now be a crime for a novelist or playwright to use the idea of enlisting alternate electors to stop a senile oatmeal-spitting Chinese asset from being inaugurated as president because people believe an election was stolen.
This was all laid out as correct in the 5th season of VEEP as I recall.
Very interesting position of a knowledgeable and experienced lawyer
https://twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1715403339448606827
Not exactly shining examples of courage and legal ethics here. Just to clarify, I’m referring to the cowardly capitulation to that abusive hack Fani.
No but these people probably aren’t rolling in the money so it makes sense to take the easy option.
Also it appears Bidens DoJ is going after the low hanging fruit purposely to get these guys on their side to testify against the real target (Trump).
Are you all enjoying your world wide peace and no mean tweets?
Taking a good deal offered up by a desperate prosecutor is far from cowardice, its simple prudence. Why risk felony conviction and five year in prison + very expense legal costs for trial/appeals + the toll the uncertainty takes on a defendant when you can avoid that with $5 K fine, 100 hours of community service and probation?
Certainly he is not to expected to do so to make others feel better about themselves. Nor to meet the standards of those not impacted by the risks, those unwilling to provide the costs of mounting a defense through all appeals and make sure his family is financially taken care of through a multi year process.
It depends upon whether he was truly guilty or innocent of the charges. Guilty = Prudent. Innocent = Coward
Its even more than that. He knows that Fanni will stack the jury with rabid, mindless leftists that do not care about the law but only destroying the right and most particularly anyone associated with Trump. The defense also recognizes the judge as a complicit state player fully aligned with the prosecution. What people fail to understand us that a prosecutor can charge a crime with no burden of proof and then use this charge (and generally others) to secure a plea bargain. Many years ago, I was a witness to an event and was deposed in the prosecutors offices. On the wall they had a status board that listed the running conviction rate for the year. It showed 98%. They simply are not that good unless the system is stacked in their direction, which it is.
In the abstract debate among those who won’t be impacted by the consequences of the decision it is far easier to inject our own preferences of what someone should do. This isn’t an abstract or theoretical decision for him. He was facing a deranged DA and more than likely a less than nonpartisan jury with a potential 5 year felony conviction along with huge legal fees to carry on his fight. He was offered an incredibly good deal and took it. A deal that kept him out of jail, stopped his bleeding $ for legal expenses and is a misdemeanor to boot.
It’s worked for witch hunters and tyrants for millennia.
Not to mention that they didn’t have all the discovery yet, because the prosecution is dragging it’s feet.
Maybe it’s naive on my part, but the last minute part of these plea deals feels like the DA really didn’t want to run these two cases through trail.
Having to run these cases through open court before the “more important” defendants had their trail start could really hurt her case if these aren’t air tight cases. That’s why she wanted to try everyone at the same time.
Maybe forcing these two cases to court quickly was a real good defensive strategy for these two defendants.
It was excellent strategy. They forced the prosecution to offer up very lenient terms.
I agree.
Oh Black Fanni is afraid of getting Marilyn Mosbyed
bam ba lam
Ram Jam!
These charges are a joke. This is just another Hobson choice.
Dear God
Republicans are traitors to Americans
The whole Country is a shirt show
100 million to Hamas , 2 Americans let go
BiBi, freaking take them out!!!!
$100 BILLION for ukraine
Can’t make this shit up
…and a sincere heartfelt confession/apology written at gunpoint.
The first letter of each sentence will spell out “T O R T U R E”.
I don’t blame him for taking a deal that results in no jail time, but it is still disheartening. Someone needs to make the DA prove her case because it looks shaky as heck..
He and Powell will ever be remembered for pleading guilty to charges in the case related to Trump and the 2020 election. What will get buried in the story is that the felony charges were dropped and they spent no time in prison.
It doesn’t matter that they may have done it to save personal financial distress or that they were losing potential income by being involved n ongoing litigation.
With Chesebro’s plea, the prosecution got just what they wanted: The word ‘felony’ They were willing to over-charge to the moon just to get a single political victory. Now they can threaten both of them with revocation of the plea if they testify truthfully, that they *obeyed* the law, *followed* the rules, and were hammered into the ground as Enemies of the State for their troubles.
Saw Sidney Powell did as well.
I am convinced they did nothing wrong bit are being pressured to throw in the towel to get away from what the Kangaroo Courts will throw at them.
Feel very sorry for them
Most likely. They know the money they have and the unlimited resources the Government can throw at them. It’s why most Federal cases end in a plea deal even if your innocent
True that, but under the same situation I’d do likewise.
Strange how the “worst insurrection and a danger to Democracy in history” cases are now 0-2 on the worst charges, jail time and so on. Misdemeanors and jail time which is less than those people stuck in the DC Gulag Solitary Confinement.
Since when is “drafting a strategy” a crime??
Ah, they have the backbones of a jellyfish!