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For those of you who are seriously following the Trump Criminal Probes, Teri is one of the best sources out there if you are looking for factual information from a legal expert who can explain what's happening in language a layman can easily understand.
Marcy Wheeler is another good source but her blog can sometimes be over the head of most unless they are a legal profession. The comments after their posts are always interesting and informative.
From Teri's blog:
Last summer, Willis told all eleven fake electors that they were targets of the investigation.
There are three categories of witnesses in grand jury proceedings.
A target has been linked to the crime with substantial evidence. They are likely to be named criminal defendants.
A witness has no criminal liability (at the moment), but has evidence the grand jury needs.
A subject is in between: there is some evidence, but not yet enough for a person to be considered a target. A subject could become a target or a mere witness.
In other words, all of the fake electors were informed that they were potentially in big trouble.
Also last year, Willis’s office also told the court that some of the fake electors would receive offers of immunity.
An offer of immunity is obviously good for people with criminal liability. It means they will not be prosecuted for the crimes being investigated as long as they tell the truth. A potential defendant would be stupid not to take that offer. Of course, Trump’s idea is that all people should be “loyal” to him, which means staying quiet and going to prison to protect him. We’ve already seen a case where potential witnesses against Trump were represented by Trump-paid lawyers. If the witnesses are represented by Trump-paid lawyers (or lawyers paid by Trump allies) the lawyer’s goal would likely be to get the witnesses to protect Trump when the witnesses expect their lawyers to look out for their best interests. (Click here and scroll down for the example of Cassidy Hutchinson.)
The Court did not order Willis’s office to reveal which electors could potentially receive immunity from prosecution. Instead, the Court instructed the two lawyers, Pierson and Debrow, to extend a blanket offer of immunity to each to gauge each elector’s interest.
On August 5, 2022, Pierson and Debrow reported that none of their clients were interested in offers of immunity.
On April 12th and 14th 2023, the DA’s office interviewed the electors and learned that they were never presented with offers of immunity. Oops. And wow. This means that the defense lawyers did not tell the potential defendants that offers of immunity were on the table. Instead, the defense lawyers lied to the prosecution and said none of the defendants were interested in offers of immunity. As Willis said to the court, “This situation reached an impracticable and ethical mess.”
And that’s not all. The DA’s office, during these interviews, also learned that one of the electors engaged in “acts that are violations of GA law” and that the other fake electors were not involved with those additional acts. Willis did not reveal in this motion what those illegal acts were.
What obviously happened was at the eleventh hour, Willis learned that she had more cooperating witnesses. The more cooperating witnesses, the better if the goal is to try to get the people at the top.
No surprise, a week after Willis filed her motion to disqualify Debrow from further representation in the matter, we learned that Willis’s timetable was delayed “in part because a number of witnesses have sought to cooperate as the investigation has neared an end.”
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