Request follows publication of ‘confidential video recordings’ of statements by Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Ken Chesebro

Fulton county prosecutors have asked the judge overseeing the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump and his co-defendants in Georgia to immediately impose an “emergency” protective order over the discovery materials to prevent potential future leaks of evidence.

The request came after several media outlets published details of videotaped statements that former Trump lawyers Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro gave as part of plea deals to avoid being tried as racketeering co-defendants with the former president.

The Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis had previously asked for a protective order for the discovery materials in the case. But citing the leak of several of the “proffer” interviews, Willis renewed the request on Tuesday to Fulton county superior court judge Scott McAfee.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    133·
    1 year ago

    US Judges after someone attempts to murder them because Trump told them to: “If you do that again there WILL be a fine!”

    • PreviouslyAmused@lemmy.ml
      61·
      1 year ago

      “…. there MIGHT be a small fine of it happens again”

      Attempted murder of judge happens again, under Trumps specific orders.

      “Okay, this is your very last warning”

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
      42·
      1 year ago

      “If you do that again I’ll consider a fine”

      Followed by his lawyers appealing to the Supreme Court, who then decide in a 6-3 vote that murder is a type of free speech when committed by a former president