specifically the rico charges. the racketeering charges. how that applies to the state of georgia miss willis has apparently been determining whether or not she might bring some charges in a variety of statutes including the states rico statue. statutes of pattern on a federal statute. that is designed to allow the government to go after large complex organized crime networks. that is usually how it s done, right? in organized crime cases that s how we tend to hear about it. but this particular using this statute in a particular or novel way. patterns that we don t normally see them. and this might be. one she has also used in earlier back to gay shuns. it can be a way to tie together very stalling fact patterns. but it also does come with some potential downsides. the rico statues, at least a federal one and i imagines day one has a very arcane requirement. some highly technical requirements. sometimes that troops
All eyes are on Georgia this week, where yet another indictment of former President Trump is expected imminently. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) has been probing Trump’s efforts to interfere in the state’s closely fought 2020 election for more than a year, and is widely expected this month to bring the fourth…
Trump is facing several cases. In addition to the case in Georgia, he is expected to be indicted in New York this week, remains under federal investigation for his handling of classified documents, and is the subject of more than a dozen civil cases and lawsuits.
of the former president pressuring georgia officials including this one. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state. that phone call is as shocking as the first time you heard it, every time you hear it. so why the potential racketeering charges? they allow prosecutors to bring charges against multiple defendants. fulton county district attorney fanny willis could use the law to try to make the case that trump and his allies were part of a criminal enterprise and willis likes using rico charges, which were originally designed t to take down the mafia. this is what she said about it over the summer, in an unrelated case. the reason i m a fan of rico is i think jurors are very, very intelligent. they want to know what happened. they want to make an accurate decision about someone s life.