There are 41 criminal counts in the nearly 100-page Georgia election interference indictment against former U.S. president Donald Trump and 18 others. The most serious is racketeering, a charge usually associated with organized crime.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump is shown at the Bedminster Invitational LIV golf tournament at his club in Bedminster, N.J., on Sunday. He faces 13 criminal charges, including racketeering, in an election interference indictment filed in Georgia on Monday.
Mark Meadows, Trump's former White House chief of staff, and lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman were among those charged. Trump lawyers John Eastman, left, and Rudy Giuliani are shown on Jan. 6, 2021, before the former president addressed supporters in Washington, D.C., to contest the certification of the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Both men are among those charged in Georgia's indictment.
Many of the paragraphs in the RICO charge don't list Trump or Giuliani or any of the local people, he said. The advantage of having a lot of people in a case is that it can be overwhelming to a jury, where it's just like the point is there's so much evidence it must have happened," said Jeffrey Brickman, an Atlanta-based criminal defence lawyer and former district attorney of Georgia's DeKalb County. "And then the other side of that [is] this is too much info. There's only so much [the jury] can digest, and there's a greater chance of of jury confusion.
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