(MENAFN- PRLog) WASHINGTON - Aug. 14, 2023 - prlog -- Trump's Most Dangerous Indictment Triggered by Activist Professor
No President Can Pardon, and GA's RICO Can Engulf Vast Enterprise
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 14, 2023) -
Former president Donald Trump has been indicted by DA Fanni Willis in Fulton County, Georgia, this evening in a multi-count indictmentcharging many named defendants, and including a criminal count under Georgia's very powerful RICO [Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations] statute against Trump.
Now Trump faces the greatest danger of all of his indictments, says the public interest law professor whose formal legal complaint first triggered the criminal investigation in Georgia.
See:
raffensperger's office indicated that a complaint from george washington university law professor john banzhaf iii had prompted the "fact finding and administrative" probe
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This state indictment presents more real danger to Trump - legally, politically, and otherwise - than the two prior federal indictments for at least five reasons, says public interest law professor John Banzhaf.
■ Neither Trump himself, nor any other Republican (or even Democrat) who is elected president, can pardon him, nor promise pardons to persuade potential witnesses not to cooperate or testify
■ The indictment's inclusion of Georgia's extra powerful RICO statute will permit Willis to introduce into evidence many witnesses and documents which otherwise could not be presented
■ Because televising of the trial is permitted in Georgia without exceptions, more people will become interested, and will see and hear day-by-day and directly all that Trump has done
■ The large number of those facing unpardonable major felony charges, and career-ruining embarrassment from a televised trial, makes it likely that some will "flip" and testify against Trump
■ Georgia's RICO statute mandates (a judge has no discretion) a minimum prison sentence of 5 years, and a pardon can't come before serving at least 1/3 of this sentence
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