The Fulton County district attorney who charged former President Donald Trump with election interference in Georgia has asked an appeals court to reinstate a number of charges against Trump and his co-defendants that were tossed out by the trial court judge earlier this year.
District Attorney Fani Willis, in a filing to the Georgia Court of Appeals, argued that Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee “erred” in March when he quashed six of the counts in the indictment, specifically relating to the charge of solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer.
In his March ruling, McAfee wrote that the indictment had “failed to allege sufficient detail” in exactly what part of the oath the defendants were allegedly trying to get public officials to violate. He said the “lack of detail concerning an essential legal element” was “fatal” and tossed out the charge.
Willis, in her new court filing, pushed back on the judge’s ruling, arguing that the indictment “more than sufficiently” included those details and called for the charges to be reinstated.
Source-ABC
