In a Friday hearing ahead of MAGA lawyers’ Kenny Chesebro and Sidney “Kraken” Powell’s upcoming October 23 trial for their part in the massive Trump Georgia post-2020 election coup attempt conspiracy, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee handed Chesebro back-to-back defeats in his motions to claim immunity from prosecution and suppress the content of emails from the evidence.
On the immunity bid, McAfee ruled Chesebro’s claim having “simply performed his legal duty to a client” is “irrelevant in the pretrial context of immunity, and this Court declines the invitation to supplant the jury’s role as the factfinder.” Almost literally writing “save it for the jury, my dude.”
Chesebro relies on more or less the same argument in the attempt to suppress email evidence, that it was a legal work product and thus subject to attorney-client privilege ends the same way, with McAfee ruling Chesebro had “not sufficiently particularized why the attorney-client privilege applies, nor does he contend inclusion of these materials affected the viability of the warrant itself” and that his motion “fails to state a legal violation that would require suppression… DENIED.”