Judge rubbishes Kenneth Chesebro's motion to invalidate his guilty plea in Trump RICO case as 'entirely inapt'

Source: Law & Crime

Dec 13th, 2024, 2:50 pm


One quick resolution in the racketeering (RICO) case against President-elect Donald Trump and others was exactly that — a resolution of the case — a judge in Georgia ruled on Friday morning. Earlier this month, attorney Kenneth Chesebro asked a Peach State trial court to invalidate his guilty plea in the ongoing case. In a dismissal order, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee nixed that request as procedurally deficient.

Chesebro is widely known as one of the authors of the so-called “coup memos” that offered legal opinions on how the 45th and 47th president could overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in a “constitutionally defensible manner.” Specifically, the New York attorney was a chief architect of the alternate or “fake” electors plan.

For that plan, Chesebro was charged with a total of seven counts in the wide-ranging indictment filed by embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Those charges included one alleged RICO violation, one count of conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer, two counts of conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree, two counts of conspiracy to commit false statements and writing, and one count of conspiracy to commit filing false documents.

Chesebro was one of two co-defendants — along with Texas-based attorney Sidney Powell — who initially invoked their right to a speedy trial, severing their cases from the other 17 co-defendants.

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