Former President Trump’s attorneys file motion to quash the report of a special grand jury that investigated whether there were any “coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020 elections” in Georgia by Trump and his allies.
be “disqualified from further investigation and/or prosecution of this matter” or any related matter derived from use of special purpose grand jury.Donald Trump boards his plane in West Palm Beach, Fla., on March 13.Trump’s lawyers cited the Fifth and the 14th Amendments of the Constitution, as well as articles in the Georgia state Constitution in arguing that the grand jury’s investigation was tainted from the start.
They alleged the grand jury “illegally compelled the attendance and testimony” of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp “despite his valid assertion of sovereign immunity” and “numerous witnesses from outside the state of Georgia.” Willis, they wrote, “regularly expressed her personal opinions about the criminality of the acts under investigation thereby suggesting the guilt of those who may be accused and has criticized the exercise of constitutional rights of witnesses contrary to the prosecutorial obligations of the FCDA’s office.”
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