Many rare occurences happen in this world. One of them is Donald Trump winning a court case, which happened recently.
Yes, the former president got good news on Wednesday as the judge overseeing his criminal case in Georgia dismissed three counts against him. Of course, he can’t leap for joy yet. According to Judge Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court, prosecutors can bring up the criminal counts again.
Of course, to do that, they will need to provide additional details about Trump’s efforts to pressure Georgia officials to overturn the 2020 election results.
The judge also did not dismiss the vast majority of the indictment’s counts, throwing out six of 41 overall. This includes claims against Trump’s codefendants, Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows.
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Ten criminal counts against Trump remain. This latest ruling allows the vast majority of the counts to stand. However, McAfee can issue rulings later, dismissing more claims on other legal grounds.
District Attorney Fani Willis of Fulton County brought the 41-count indictment against Trump and some of his allies in August. According to her, they illegally conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. Of the 41 counts she brought, 13 of them were against Trump personally.
While Trump has held out, several of his codefendants have pleaded guilty to the charges against them.
These include attempts to pressure Georgia officials not to ratify now-President Joe Biden’s victory in the state. And also to appoint fake electors who would go to Congress and falsely claim Trump won the state’s electoral votes.
Trump himself exerted considerable pressure on Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger. He wanted him to “find” 11,780 votes that would flip the election results in his favor.
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McAfee’s dismissals on Wednesday all regarded “solicitation of violation of oath by public officer.” He wrote that prosecutors didn’t sufficiently explain how public officials would have violated their oaths of office if they allowed Trump a victory.
“On its own, the United States Constitution contains hundreds of clauses, any one of which can be the subject of a lifetime’s study,” McAfee wrote. “Academics and litigators devote their entire careers to the specialization of a single amendment.”
Prosecutors needed more detail, McAfee believes. “The Court’s concern is less that the State has failed to allege sufficient conduct of the Defendants — in fact, it has alleged an abundance,” he wrote. “However, the lack of detail concerning an essential legal element is, in the undersigned’s opinion, fatal.”
McAfee’s ruling on the six counts comes as he weighs whether to disqualify Willis from prosecuting the indictment. This is because there have been claims she had an “improper relationship” with the special prosecutor, an Atlanta attorney she hired to lead the case.
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Although it’s not completely sealed, Wednesday’s ruling is some of the best news Trump has had regarding his court cases. Last week, he obtained a $92 million bond to prevent E. Jean Carroll from collecting her defamation judgment against him while he pursued appeals.
He is still trying to get cash for an estimated $500 million bond for the New York attorney general’s court victory against him in a civil fraud case against the Trump Organization. In less than two weeks, he is expected to be in court again for the start of his first criminal trial for the Manhattan district attorney’s “hush money” case against him.
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