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Kenneth Chesebro takes last-minute plea deal in Georgia election interference case
ABC News ^ | October 20, 2023 | Olivia Rubin

Posted on 10/20/2023 9:27:38 AM PDT by Coronal

Kenneth Chesebro, a co-defendant in former President Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case, has taken a last-minute plea deal in the case.

The deal comes after the jury selection process had gotten underway Friday.

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.

Powell, Chesebro, Trump, and 16 others pleaded not guilty in August to all charges in a sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state of Georgia.

Chesebro becomes the third defendant in the case to strike a plea agreement. Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall last month took a plea deal in which he pleaded guilty to tampering with voting machine equipment and received probation in exchange for agreeing to testify at the trial of other co-defendants.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: fultoncounty; georgia; kennethchesebro; lawfare; neverconservative; nevermaga; nevertrump; nevertrumpglee; straightfromthedump

1 posted on 10/20/2023 9:27:38 AM PDT by Coronal
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To: Coronal

All of the plea deals are lining up. It’s becoming a matter of not if Trump will be put behind bars, but if he’ll come out alive.


2 posted on 10/20/2023 9:30:52 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Coronal

Prosecuted for doing something completely legal when Democrats do it.


3 posted on 10/20/2023 9:30:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Coronal

This is all insane and evil. As are all RATs.


4 posted on 10/20/2023 10:16:14 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Coronal

There will be people left in prison, waiting for a pardon that will never come after President Trump comes back in January 2025.


5 posted on 10/20/2023 10:56:29 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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Chesebro pleaded guilty to a single felony charge...

Chesebro, an attorney, was facing seven counts

And that's how they get you without needing a trial.
6 posted on 10/20/2023 11:03:14 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: mmichaels1970
And that's how they get you without needing a trial.

It works, it's why most cases are settled and never even move forward.

7 posted on 10/20/2023 11:04:40 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Coronal

Is Chesebro his real last name?


8 posted on 10/20/2023 11:39:58 AM PDT by depressed in 06
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To: depressed in 06

Apparently so.


9 posted on 10/20/2023 1:25:01 PM PDT by Coronal
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