District Attorney Fani Willis’s motion to revoke the bond for one co-defendant was denied by the Fulton County, Georgia, judge supervising the racketeering cases against former President Donald Trump and over a dozen other co-defendants arising from the aftermath of the 2020 election.
According to the Georgia Recorder, Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee “approved a temporary bond order that allows him to publicly comment on the 2020 presidential election racketeering case as long as he does not refer to witnesses or his remaining fourteen co-defendants,” saving former Black Voices for Trump director Harrison William Floyd from jail time.
After a two-hour court hearing, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office updated Floyd’s bond order.
Prosecutors said at the hearing that Floyd’s social media remarks were against the terms of his release agreement, which forbade him from discussing co-defendants and possible witnesses in the well-known case.
Nonetheless, McAfee “ordered prosecutors and his attorneys to reach a consensus on the new terms of his bond order that will remain in place for the time being,” according to the outlet’s report, rather than returning Floyd to jail.
Technically speaking, Floyd violated a bond arrangement that prohibited him from discussing witnesses and co-defendants, according to McAfee. But according to McAfee, Floyd’s remarks on social media didn’t warrant his being sent back to prison.
Instead, McAfee called for more clarity regarding what Floyd is allowed to communicate about the case on social media and in other public forums, the Recorder added.
A renowned legal expert asserts that the most recent plea by Jenna Ellis indicates that the DA has “wildly overcharged” in the cases, despite the fact that Willis has been able to negotiate a few plea agreements in her cases against 19 individuals accused of various legal infractions after the 2020 election.
Ellis, the lawyer who defended then-President Trump against allegations that vote-fraud cost him the election to then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden, admitted to a misdemeanour earlier this week. He received a five-year probationary term, a one-hundred-hour community service requirement, and a $5,000 fine. She also needs to write an apologetic letter to the people of Georgia.
McCarthy went on to say that the group of people Willis indicted did not behave as an “identifiable criminal ‘enterprise’ as defined in RICO.” He also wrote that he believes Willis “lacks a single criminal objective as to which she can say all 19 defendants agreed,” a conspiratorial element required to prove a RICO case.