Georgia Election Case Defendant Seeks Dismissal Over Prosecutor’s ‘Embarrassing’ Mistake
An apparent paperwork oversight could jeopardize the case against one of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case, although one former state prosecutor said the issue would “at worst” likely be considered merely “embarrassing” by the presiding judge.
An attorney for Kenneth Chesebro argued in a court filing Wednesday that Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade was never qualified under state law to present the case to the Fulton County grand jury in the first place.
The motion to dismiss the charges against Chesebro says that makes Wade’s work on the case, including the indictment against Chesebro, “void as a matter of law.”
Chesebro, a lawyer himself, suggested that the Trump campaign put forth a slate of “alternate electors” to keep then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden from getting the majority of electoral votes necessary to win the presidency in the 2020 election,
