The Georgia judge presiding over the 2020 election RICO case against former President Donald Trump and co-defendants who have yet to plead guilty has reversed himself on the issue of sealing the criminal case dockets of attorneys Sidney Powell, Ken Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis, and bail bondsman Scott Hall.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee began his unsealing order by noting that Powell, Chesebro, Ellis, and Hall each invoked their first-time offender status under Georgia’s First Offender Act to immediately seal their dockets following guilty pleas to lesser charges that did not include a RICO offense.
The article doesn’t make it sound that way. Sounds like the judge accepted the request to keep the docket sealed while the defendants made arguments that their personal privacy outweighed the public interest, and then either no arguments were made, or the judge was not convinced.
Yeah I read through it, but the judge also gave a verbal agreement initially to keep it sealed and then stated they changed their mind and will let the defendants re-subnit why they think it should be sealed. It’s hard to know what changed their mind, if anything did, however I think it’s valid to point out that Powell and the co-conspirators have been acting poorly since the trial.