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It is. >> yeah. >> yes because they have to prove the existence of the enterprise, and theyll have to prove some of the predicate acts to give the scope of the actions that happen. so theyll be on the lookout for all of that, what proof they put forward for that. obviously if chesboro goes alone, theyll focused on what he does as far as which predicate acts they prove up and that sort of thing. but tell still be helpful for all defendants because some of these witnesses that they will use to pro...

Unrelated crimes committed by a host of different people, if those crimes are perceived to be in support of a common goal. and georgia district attorney fani willis, she is an expert at using we go to take down everyone from corrupt school teachers to violent street gangs. joining me now for a deeper dive, anthony michael, assistant law professor at georgia state university. its good to have you back. you and i were together last weekend before this indictment was unsealed late monday night. wev...

>> this indictment has 161 acts as alleged, complaints from people like mark meadows that me setting up a phone call or me organizing a meeting, in and of itself, is not criminal conduct. whats your response to the idea that those 161 acts, over acts put forth in the indictment, may look innocent on facebook actually could be used as predicate acts for purposes of rico >> all the time, there are a based charges, in this case, we have the georgia rico, where there are acts which are otherwise the...

The judge, if they have hair today, they will not have it later because they will yank it out with 19 different defense councils. do you think thats a realistic explanation? this is a rico charge, which includes an enterprise as the whole predicate of everything. the idea of altogether, can that be done here? >> there are a couple things to think about. one, having a rico indictment in a lot of ways makes it easier because, as you know, the prosecutor likes to tell the story. and now you can tel...

Act as a criminal conspiracy and for that matter why are 12 tweets by the former president and a retweet by rudy giuliani also listed as some of the 161 overt acts prosecutors say prove the existence of a criminal conspiracy. last night district attorney fani willis explained. as you examine the indictment, you will see acts that are identified as overt acts, and those that are identified as predicate acts, sometimes called acts of racketeering activity. overt acts are not necessarily crimes u...

Im curious what you think, again, just what the underlying facts might justify as this grand jury, we are told, does vote now for the first time? >> i think rico is perfectly appropriate for this case. you know, people tend to think of it as being used only in mafia cases. and thats how it originated. its been years note of different kinds of cases, including fani willis. in my own district, we used it for street gangs, and we used it for corrupt public officials. and as roberts said, the beauty...

Down into as you said, 161 different acts, as well as additional 40 or so different counts. so the document is organized very well. while it may take us a while to read through it, we can see how each little brick blaze into building that bigger story. and again, those of us prosecuted in front of jury, you know, every piece of evidence relates to that theme in some way, shape, or for. each of these acts will have behind it various piece of evidence that the dea and her team will be putting fort...

Colluding to take down trump and cash kind of touched and then a little earlier. i want to bring this in every individual is charged with one count mike overt acts predicate acts. whats the difference? she said, some clearly overt, not as serious as the predicate acts. what are we dealing with here? were dealing with a legal stew here. shes coming up with a organized crime theory to go after president trump and his lawyers and his other advisers to try to criminalize the political process, and t...

Are alleged to be acts taken in furtherance of the conspiracy. many occurred in georgia. and some occurred in other jurisdictions and are included because the grand jury believes they were part of the illegal effort to overturn the results of georgias 2020 presidential election. the acts identified as predicate acts or acts of racketeering activity are crimes that are alleged to have been committed in furtherance of the criminal enterprise. x of racketeering activity are also charged as separate...

To accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donald j trump to seize the presidential term of office beginning on january 20th, 2021. specifically the participants in association took various actions in georgia and elsewhere to block the counting of the votes of the presidential electors who were certified as the winners of georgias 2020 general election. as you examine the indictment you will see acts that are identifies as overacts and those are that are identified as predicate acts sometimes ca...