The prosecutor investigating possible illegal interference in Georgia’s 2020 elections has agreed to immunity deals with at least eight

Republican

fake voters who signed a certificate falsely crediting that then president

Donald

Trump had won the state.

Kimberly Debrow, the alleged defense attorney for the Republican voters, revealed the existence of the immunity deals in a lawsuit filed Friday, saying her eight clients accepted the deals last month. The filing does not identify those who received immunity.

Last July, Fulton County Dist. Thoughtful Fani Willis’ office revealed that the 16 people who signed the fake voter’s certificate were all the targets of its investigation, which examines whether Trump and his allies committed crimes as they tried to reverse his narrow election loss in Georgia.

The 16 rogue voters met at the Capitol on December 11. 14, 2020, and signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump had won the presidential election and that they were the states’ duly elected and qualified voters.

The news of the immunity deals indicates Willis will continue to work on the case as she prepares to decide whether to press charges this summer. In letters sent late last month, she advised law enforcement agencies to prepare adequate security for her announcement of her indictment decisions, which she plans to make between mid-July and early September.

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Debrows’ filing Friday came in response to a motion Willis filed last month to bar the defense attorney from further participation in any proceedings arising from the investigation.

When Willis informed the 16 rogue voters last summer that they could be prosecuted for the investigation, 11 of them were represented by Debrow and another attorney, Holly Pierson, both of whom were hired by the state’s Republican Party.

Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney, who oversaw the special grand jury seated to support the investigation, ruled in November that Georgia Republican Party chairman David Shafer could not share an attorney with the other 10 bogus voters. represented by Debrow and Pierson. As a result, Pierson continued to represent Shafer and Debrow represented the other 10.

Debrow said in Friday’s filing that when the district attorney’s office offered immunity deals to eight of her 10 clients, she consulted her other two clients and determined that the most conservative and practical course of action was for those two to hire their own attorneys. . She said they have since.

In her motion last month, Willis said some of Debrows’ clients told the district attorney’s team in April that one of the bogus voters represents Debrow’s committed acts in violation of Georgia law.

Willis’s motion adds that some of Debrow’s clients said they were never advised of potential immunity deals last summer, despite Pierson telling the court that she and Debrow had spoken to their clients and none of them were interested. was in a deal.

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Willis wrote that Debrow’s representation of 10 of the bogus voters represented clear conflict and had become an unworkable and ethical mess.

Debrow called Willis’s move reckless, frivolous, abusive and completely baseless.

The Willis team’s only real immunity offer came April 4, and all previous discussions were very general, non-individualized offers to offer potential immunity to undisclosed recipients, the defense attorney wrote.

The 11 people she and Pierson represented last summer were each given information in August about the existence and potential implications of potential immunity offers, and all 11 declined potential immunity as presented at the time, Debrow said.

During interviews with her clients last month, prosecutors never said they believed one of Debrow’s clients was accusing another and never said they objected to her representing all of her clients, Debrow wrote.

Meanwhile, Trump’s Georgia legal team filed a motion in March to quash the special grand jury report and all evidence related to the investigation and bar Willis from any further involvement in the case.

Cathy Latham, one of the Republican Trump supporters who signed the bogus voter certificate, joined the Trump team’s motion on April 29. Latham was previously one of 10 represented by Debrow, but her application to join the March motion was filed by a different attorney last week.

McBurney has given Willis until May 15 to file a combined response to Trump and Latham’s motions.