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should’ve stuck to gerrymandering, the legal kind of election tampering
Glad Sidney is guilty.
In Nelson’s voice - Ha ha!
Did she flip on Trump? That would be amazing.
I’m thinking that if she took the plea deal that she definitely did
She also agreed to testify truthfully against her co-defendants at future trials.
Sounds like it.
They all should have flipped way earlier, it’s not like he would support them or take care of them in any way. I mean, look at the lawyers he hires for himself.
Well the article does say
“A judge agreed that she will serve about six years of probation, have to pay $2,700 in restitution and have to testify truthfully against her co-defendants.”
So yes
Oh they just expected the truth later from a trump toady for an immediate legal benefit. So wise.
Oh they will absolutely bring the hammer down if she doesn’t do and say everything by the book from this point forward, that’s the point of a plea deal. It gets the defendant out of (most of the) trouble, but it locks them in to testifying fully and truthfully about the case from then on. If the prosecutor/judge thinks they aren’t holding up that promise, the deal is taken away. You really do have to go full state’s evidence if you take a deal like this, and they are not playing around with the threat of piling all those felony charges - and more - right back on you if you don’t sing just the way the DOJ wants you to.
Part of her deal was a written statement describing what she will testify to. They don’t give this kind of deal unless the subject has already provided sufficient useful information and sworn to its truthfulness. She’s bound to her statement now and, if she retracts later, I’m sure they can both pull back the plea deal and charge her with perjury.
These prosecutors aren’t stupid nor is this their first plea deal. They’ve already got the goods.
$2700 for a lawyer lol, these numbers are so random
Yeah but she was Trump’s lawyer so I assume she is broke and unemployable.
/S sort of
35% of the county would totally hire her.
35% of the county would totally hire her.
lol @ thinking the average MAGA chud can afford to hire a lawyer. Also, you forgot the R in country.
Well, not now, she’s turned on the God-Emperor.
This. I think her law career is over.
I can’t imagine what job she’d do now. Or maybe I am wrong and there are still people who’d hire her.I’d imagine this would probably put her on the chopping block for disbarment
Newsmax, OANN
On NPR, they state that the $2700 covers the cost of replacing election equipment.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1207076719/sidney-powell-georgia-guilty-plea
Same kind of deal that Scott Hall took:
As part of the deal, she will serve six years of probation, will be fined $6,000 and will have to write an apology letter to Georgia and its residents. She also agreed to testify truthfully against her co-defendants at future trials.
Will I get a copy of the apology letter in the mail? Lol
This could have been a real punishment if they made her hand sign a letter to every Georgian over voting age. That’s justice. Let her chatgpt the letter. Also make her sign every single one 5 days a week, 8 hours a day until she’s done.
As much as I want to see the house of cards collapse, that toadies like her get off nearly Scott free is a real miscarriage of justice IMO. She should be serving actual time, and not in a white-collar-resort prison.
The problem is that the actions the state can prove only amount to misdemeanors. That’s why RICO is so powerful. Even if you only did misdemeanors, if you were part of the conspiracy then you get lumped in with all the felonies everyone else committed too. The whole point of RICO is to roll up the underlings with the bosses and try to peel off underlings in exchange for cooperation.
By pleaing out, Powell is separating herself from the others and so those felony RICO charges don’t apply anymore. All that said, this is all at the discretion of the DA and the judge. If Powell fucks up the terms of her deal she’s in for six years of Georgia state prison. At 68 years old, that’d got to be a pretty good motivator for good behavior and cooperation.
I totally get it, and in the grand scheme it makes perfect sense. You let the little fish get off easy in order to secure a conviction on the big fish.
With that being said, I share the feeling of what u/enkers said above. It’s disappointing that a lawyer, who damn well should have known better, can engage in a plot to overthrow our democracy and then get off with a slap on the wrist. It doesn’t exactly serve as a deterrent for future conspirators, knowing that there are no serious consequences for helping “the bigger fish” commit crimes.
She always seemed like one of the biggest instigators to me. She drove a lot of the worst rhetoric and made up a lot of pure bullshit. Like you said, as a lawyer she should have been even more aware than her co-defendants how illegal this shit was.
I hope there’s good strategy behind the decision to allow her to plea. If her testimony can directly implicate Trump or others it might be worthwhile. She also might be dumb enough to violate the terms of her plea, in which case you get her confession AND you get to throw the book at her.
She will be disbarred as well. And, depending on what she has said, she may be extremely exposed to civil lawsuits now.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyer Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to reduced charges Thursday over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election in Georgia, becoming the second defendant in the sprawling case to reach a deal with prosecutors.
Powell, who was charged alongside Trump and 17 others with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law, entered the plea just a day before jury selection was set to start in her trial.
She was initially charged with racketeering and six other counts as part of a wide-ranging scheme to keep the Republican president in power after he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden.
The acceptance of a plea deal is a remarkable about-face for a lawyer who, perhaps more than anyone else, strenuously pushed baseless conspiracy theories about a stolen election in the face of extensive evidence to the contrary.
A lower-profile defendant in the case, bail bondsman Scott Graham Hall, last month pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges.
The indictment says a person who is not named sent an email to a top SullivanStrickler executive and instructed him to send all data copied from Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Coffee County to an unidentified lawyer associated with Powell and the Trump campaign.
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Forget the Kraken, I think Sidney is about to release the Great Old Ones all over the remaining defendants
I thought it would be the “Downfall” video, but this works too.
Marge, I was there - the clown is G-I-L-L-T-Y.
Just a flashback I’ve been doing since Nixon. 🤣
Hell of a deal for trying to overturn democracy. But they want the
bigfat fish more.Re-leash the kraken!
We know Cheez Bro turned down an offer of 3 years probation. I wonder if Kraken got the same offer or if it’s only 72% as good as his.
Also wondering if Cheese Burrow is happy or sad that he’ll now be on trial alone.
The deal would have allowed Chesebro to avoid prison time by pleading guilty to one felony count of racketeering, the top charge in the indictment, according to the sources.
Kraken pleaded guilty to all misdemeanor crimes. That’s a huge difference.
As far as I understand it, Chesebro’s plea deal included sentencing under a first time offender program that would automatically expunge the conviction if he completed probation without violations.
Wow what a dumbass. That was a great deal and he’s going to eat shit in court.
There goes that speedy trial. Makes sense now that she did that to angle for a faster plea deal. Saved herself potentially dying in prison. Cheese bro really really should take the plea too https://www.ajc.com/news/judge-rejects-request-to-dismiss-charges-against-chesebro-powell/QO2F5HTS65BBHCVS7W3KU35LEE/
If chesebro thinks that
For example, Chesebro argued that one charge against him – conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer – was improper because the Republican electors were, in fact, electors under federal law but never claimed to be Georgia’s certified presidential electors.
is going to save him from a jury, he’s fucked.
Sir, I never said he was the president of the United States, I said be was president of the states. As in our larping group called The States. He really was the president!
I think that legal theory is intended to prevent the trial from even reaching a jury. This was in a motion to get the case tossed out of state court, citing the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.
So let me get this right. He was impersonating a certified presidential elector sent to DC to fraudulently perform the duties of a certified presidential elector, but that’s OK because he never said he was a certified presidential elector?
“Sir, you were arrested trying to get access to the bank’s safe using an employee badge you found on the ground.”
“Yes, but I never said that I was trying to impersonate him, therefore these charges of attempted bank robbery are invalid!”
Is he paying an actual lawyer actual American money for this advice? Because if so, he’s getting ripped off.
My (divorce) lawyer constantly reminds me “this is your case, if you want to go with that we’ll go with it”. I interpret this as “don’t be a dumbass”, I guess Chesebro took it as an actual offer.
Donald Trump is going to die in custody.
I still can’t bring myself to believe that, Trump never ever actually experiences consequences.
But Giuliani? I believe he’s going to prison for sure.
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And in other news, Popcorn futures are thru the roof.
