In all, an Arizona grand jury indicted 18 Republicans.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Cohen, who is presiding over the case, is considering requests from at least a dozen defendants who were indicted in April on charges of forgery, fraud and conspiracy.
They say Mayes campaigned on investigating fake electors and had shown a bias toward Trump and his supporters. Prosecutors say the defendants don't have evidence to back up their retaliation claim and they crossed the line from protected speech to fraud. Mayes' office also has said the grand jury that brought the indictment wanted to consider charging Trump but prosecutors urged them not to.
Dennis Wilenchik, an attorney for defendant James Lamon, who had signed a statement claiming Trump had won Arizona, argued his client signed the document only as a contingency in case a lawsuit would eventually turn the outcome of the presidential race in Trump's favor in Arizona.Prosecutor Nicholas Klingerman said the defendants' actions don't back up their claims that they signed the document as a contingency.
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