Georgia Judge Orders Limited Publication of Trump Election Interference Grand Jury Report

A Georgia judge on Monday ordered the release of limited portions of the report of the grand jury tasked with reviewing interference in the 2020 election as former President Trump sought to reverse his loss in the state.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who oversees the grand jury, declined to release the full grand jury report, which is expected to include fees recommendations.

Instead, he ordered three parts of the report to be published on Thursday.

McBurney’s decision largely supported the argument of Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis (D), who vowed to make decisions on the charge soon and said that the release of the report could create problems for future defendants in getting a fair trial.

The jurors involved in the preparation of the report had previously decided that it should be made public.

“There was not a single lawyer advocating any of the objectives of the investigation,” McBurney wrote in an eight-page decision, noting that the process was “perfectly appropriate – a one-sided investigation.”

“Potential future defendants have failed to provide evidence beyond what the District Attorney asked them to provide. They could not call their own witnesses who could refute what the witnesses of another state had said, and they were not able to present mitigating evidence. In other words, there was very limited due process in this process for those who might be named as worthy of prosecution in the final report.”

The release will include an introduction and conclusion to the report, as well as a discussion in the section regarding how some witnesses may have lied under oath. No witnesses are named in this section of the report.

McBurney noted that the pre-release delay is intended to allow Willis to argue for edits in any of the sections.

The Willis case is seen as one of the most promising avenues for a possible prosecution of Trump, who, in a telephone conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (right), asked him to “find 11,780 votes, one more than we have.”

At a January hearing on the matter, Willis stressed that several defendants may be entitled to a fair trial related to the publication of the report.

“We must remember to protect the rights of future accused. And so the state doesn’t want that to happen – and I don’t think there’s any way that the court can guarantee – that if this report is published, then somehow arguments can be made that it will affect the right of later persons – several – to get a fair trial, to have a fair hearing, to be able to stand trial in that jurisdiction,” Willis said at the start of the hearing.

“Decisions are inevitable,” she added.

The case could affect a number of individuals in Trump’s orbit, as well as the former president himself.

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Notable targets in Georgia include former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 Republicans who held a rally to carry out a fake voter plot by voting to confirm Trump’s election.

Trump’s lawyers did not attend the January hearing and noted that Trump was never subpoenaed or asked to voluntarily appear before a grand jury.

“We can assume that the grand jury did its job and considered the facts and the law, as we did, and concluded that President Trump did not violate the law,” Trump attorneys Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg and Jennifer Little said in a statement. joint statement at the time.

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