CNN Senior Legal Analyst Ellie Honig said Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that Georgia’s Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has filed multiple charges in former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election extortion case. She said the rejection was “embarrassing” for her and Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fannie Willis. team.
“I don’t think this ruling will change the type of evidence prosecutors can present, but it will definitely invalidate some of the charges, which would be embarrassing for prosecutors,” Honig said. he said. It’s a huge failure by the prosecutors when you file charges and the judge throws them out before the trial even begins. ”
He continued, “Frankly, throughout the history of this case, there have been some failures by prosecutors. The judge who oversaw the grand jury removed Fani Willis from the case. I have seen that it is now being questioned as violating the ethics of prosecution rules and I have now seen 6 charges removed from the case. The issue applies to the charges against the defendant. This concerns the charges themselves.”
Honig added, “The case is still going on. The mastermind and extortion case is still going on, but this is a setback.”
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