Attorneys for former President Trump have asked a Georgia court to invalidate a special grand jury and disqualify the DA probing efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The special grand jury she used last year to examine evidence her office had gathered was disbanded in January. That grand jury did not have the ability to return an indictment -- only to make recommendations concerning criminal prosecutions.it submitted, the special grand jury revealed no details about any such recommendations, beyond recommending that prosecutors seek indictments against witnesses who they believed may have lied during their testimony.
Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 7, 2023.In their filing on Friday, Trump's legal team sought a court order to quash the proceedings. They asked the court to forbid Willis "from introducing any evidence obtained via the special purpose grand jury process to a regular grand jury ...
Willis officially launched the probe in February 2021, sparked in part by the now-infamous Jan. 2, 2021, Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump pleaded with Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes," the exact number Trump needed to win Georgia. Trump has publicly denounced the investigation and has denied all wrongdoing in his phone call to Raffensperger.
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