Former President Donald Trump will be processed at the Fulton County jail Thursday, August 21 on charges brought by District Attorney Fani Willis that he tried to overturn the 2020 result in the state. There will be no hearing. Instead, he will be arrested and booked, and a hearing will occur in September.
, have turned themselves into authorities to be booked. co-defendants have yet entered pleas or been arraigned since the booking process is separate in Georgia.
Ray Smith III, a lawyer who represented Trump in his 2020 election challenges in Georgia, is charged with 12 counts. He agreed to a $50,000. Jenna Ellis, a former senior legal adviser to the Trump 2020 campaign, is charged with two counts and has agreed to a $100,000 bond. First two Trump co-defendants were booked in Fulton County Jail on Tuesday
The two men were indicted last week alongside Trump and 16 others, who are accused by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis of scheming to subvert the will of Georgia voters in a desperate bid to keep Joe Biden out of the White House. It was the fourth criminal case brought against the Republican former president.
Eastman said in a statement provided by his lawyers that he was surrendering Tuesday"to an indictment that should never have been brought." He lambasted the indictment for targeting"attorneys for their zealous advocacy on behalf of their clients" and said each of the 19 defendants was entitled to rely on the advice of lawyers and past legal precedent to challenge the election results.
Both Meadows and Clark argued in their motions that, because they were federal officials at the time of the alleged crimes, their cases should be handled by the federal court system.
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