In a recent decision, co-defendants for former president Donald Trump in Georgia will be able to say that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis overstepped her legal authority by bringing election-related criminal charges against him.
Harrison Lloyd, a former president of the Black Voices for Trump alliance, was granted a certificate of instant evaluation by District Judge Scott McAfee on Monday, allowing him to ask for a assessment by the Georgia Court of Appeals. The McAfee selection is amazing because it problems with earlier decisions quashing legal motions intended to prevent Willis from pursuing particular crimes.
In this instance, Judge McAfee was willing to entertain Lloyd’s reasoning that Willis ‘ “election- related” analysis was beyond her control. According to documents obtained by Law & Crime, she has previously asserted that she “did not have the authority to investigate or present charges against the Defendant without a recommendation from the State Election Board.”
McAfee first established that Willis and the state’s election officials shared” parallel authority” and that neither the secretary of state nor any other political body needed to be referred for a referral before filing a charge. The Fulton County judge ruled that the judge’s decision on Lloyd’s charm warranted attention by an appeals judge, but the most recent motion for a certificate of assessment was rejected.
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He wrote earlier this week that the earlier decision to grant Willis control is” of like importance to the circumstance that instant evaluation should be had.”
The Georgia Court of Appeals must now determine whether Judge McAfee correctly applied the rules in situations where defense lawyers have said in issues, giving a city counsel the authority to file election-related claims without following the customary procedures for cases involving a grand jury.
” It is undisputed that no recommendation was sought nor granted”, Floyd’s latest activity reads. O. C. G. A. is pronounced to be in conflict with this Court’s argument of “harmonie” between these regulations, holding that the District Attorney has simultaneous control with the SEB and that a recommendation from the SEB to the District Attorney is not required in election-related situations. § 21- 2- 35 absolutely meaningless and superfluous”.
Attorneys for Lloyd now have 10 days to file a motion with the appeals court, which has 45 days to consider it before deciding whether to grant an appeal.
One of the few Trump co-defendants who was unable to post bail in the case was Floyd, who described the conditions as more appropriate for a third-world nation than a U.S. jail cell. He was one of the few to do so.
” What’s going on in that jail, I’ve seen worse conditions in Iraq”, Harrison, a former Marine, said on Fox following his release. One of the walls of my cell had fecal matter on it when I went there for the first time. The person in the cell next to me was being tased the first morning I woke up to that same day.
He continued,” I’m just grateful that I served in the United States Marine Corps infantry and I’ve dealt with worse,” making a plea to the audience to “pray for the inmates who are in that jail.”
