Trump RICO co-defendant loses appeal to dismiss charges after saying Fani Willis overstepped authority
Source: Law & Crime
May 9th, 2024, 11:24 am
Harrison Floyd, the former leader of Black Voices for Trump and Donald Trump‘s co-defendant in criminal racketeering case in Georgia, has lost his appeal to have his indictment thrown out after claiming Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis lacked the jurisdiction to prosecute him.
The ruling from the Georgia Court of Appeals was terse, stating only that: “Upon consideration of the Application for Interlocutory Appeal, it is ordered that it be hereby DENIED.”
As Law&Crime previously reported, in October, Floyd, 39, argued that Willis could not prosecute him because it was only the Georgia State Elections Board which had the power to probe his alleged activities in 2020. The Fulton County Superior Court was not convinced, with Judge Scott McAfee telling Floyd in January that Willis had “concurrent jurisdiction” to prosecute him, or any other election official and no board referral, as Floyd suggested, was necessary.
This prompted a flurry of pushback from the former Black Voices for Trump leader, including a request that McAfee reconsider. The judge did not and now, Floyd’s gambit to stop the charges against him have also failed. Floyd was among the few of Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia who was jailed for a few days after he was first indicted, a byproduct of his failure to negotiate bond in advance.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-rico-co-defendant-loses-appeal-to-dismiss-charges-after-saying-fani-willis-overstepped-authority/
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