Prosecution of Former President and Associates: Criminalizing Freedom of Expression in Electoral Disputes

2023-08-24 00:31:07

County Attorney Fani Willis will go down in American history as the one who perpetrated one of the worst attacks on the American Constitution,” he added. The defense of the former American president and several defendants maintains that the prosecutions once morest them amount to “criminalizing” freedom of expression in electoral disputes.

A grand jury appointed by the prosecutor indicted Donald Trump and 18 others on August 14 for their alleged unlawful attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 presidential election won in this key state by the current Democratic president. Joe Biden. They are prosecuted under a law on organized crime which provides for sentences of five to twenty years in prison.

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Forensic identification photographs

The 19 defendants have until Friday at noon (6 p.m. in Switzerland) to make themselves available to the authorities by presenting themselves at Fulton prison to have their fingerprints and their passport photograph taken (mugshot).

Court photograph of Rudy Giuliani, released by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, Wednesday, August 23, 2023. — © FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE/KEYSTONE

A total of nine of them, including the constitutionalist John Eastman or the conservative lawyer Sidney Powell, submitted to this procedure which also provides for the recording in the archives of the prison administration of the height, weight, each person’s skin and eye color.

“And mugshot for the man who probably placed the worst criminals of the 20th century in prison”, Rudy Giuliani had gritted earlier when he left his home in New York where he was also a federal prosecutor and led an anti-mafia fight. “They are going to dishonor themselves,” he added in a statement on CNN.

Donald Trump, big favorite in the Republican primaries for the 2024 presidential election, announced that he would do so on Thursday, reluctantly, denouncing “electoral interference”. He is the subject of four criminal charges, two at the federal level, in Washington and Florida (southeast), one in New York State and one in Georgia.

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