A judge has potentially killed the fake elector case in Nevada with a ruling that state prosecutors chose the wrong venue to file the case. The state attorney general says he will appeal.
By Nevada state Republican Party Chair Michael McDonald is seen in 2018 in Las Vegas. On Friday, a judge dismissed a criminal indictment against six Republicans, including McDonald, accused of submitting certificates to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential election.
Defense attorneys bluntly declared the case dead, saying that to bring the case now to another grand jury in another venue such as Nevada's capital city of Carson City would violate a three-year statute of limitations on filing charges that expired in December. Defense attorneys contended that Ford improperly brought the case in Las Vegas instead of Carson City or Reno, northern Nevada cities closer to where the alleged crime occurred. They also accused prosecutors of failing to present to the grand jury evidence that would have exonerated their clients, and said their clients had no intent to commit a crime.
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