Prosecutors in the hearing room at the DA's table: attys Daysha Young, Will Wooten & Donald Wakeford + #RICO expert & special prosecutor John Floyd
Special prosecutor Anna Cross is also present.
For the defense it's #Trump & David Shafer's #legal teams.
Steve Sadow, Trump's lead Atlanta attorney, is currently arguing why his client's speech at issue in the indictment is core political speech that's protected under the #1A.
#Georgia DA rebuts defense’s protected “political speech” / #1A argument because this isn’t about lying in #PoliticalSpeech, it’s about filing false documents & making false statements to the #court & the government.
Additionally, the lies were employed as a part of #criminal conduct & not protected.
Overt act in a criminal #conspiracy
The purpose of presenting the overt acts is to show that it is part of the overall operation – the #CriminalConspiracy.
lol. The last #Trump#Georgia#criminal#RICO defense argument was that charges should be dismissed because the term #FakeElectors was a legal conclusion & disparaging.
DA prosecutor got up for his turn & started by saying, “the words ‘fake electors’ do not exist anywhere in the indictment.”
The #Georgia DA prosecutor went on to argue that case #law & GA statutory law supported the use of characterizations in indictments.
Another great line from the DA atty Will Wooten was that all indictments include #legal conclusions, that’s what indictments are.
If indictments aren’t allowed to have legal conclusions, then I guess we can’t have indictments anymore.