Kenneth Chesebro seeks to invalidate plea deal in Trump Georgia case

Source: The Hill

12/04/24 1:52 PM ET


Kenneth Chesebro, a former lawyer for President-elect Trump, is seeking to invalidate his plea deal in the Georgia election interference case that also swept up his former boss as a defendant.

Chesebro, along with 18 co-conspirators, including Trump, was charged over efforts tied to overturning the 2020 election in the state. He is one of four of those co-defendants to have accepted a plea agreement in the case. A court document filed Wednesday indicates Chesebro, known as the architect of Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, is asking the court to invalidate that agreement. Trump pleaded not guilty.

Chesebro, however, pleaded guilty in October 2023 to one count of conspiracy to commit filing false documents. It allowed him to avoid jail time and have his record wiped after he completed a five-year probation period. His probation would terminate after three years if he had good behavior.

Chesebro wrote a series of memos devising the Trump campaign’s alternate electors scheme after Trump’s loss in 2020. He was set to go to trial last year and would have been the first defendant in the case to do so, but he struck a plea deal making him the second defendant to plead guilty after another Trump attorney, Sidney Powell.

Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5022231-kenneth-chesebro-invalidate-plea-deal-georgia/