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County, georgia. and elsewhere. to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donald j. trump. to these the presidential term of office beginning on january 20th 21. specifically the participants in association took various actions in georgia. and elsewhere. to block the county 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 identified as overt acts. and those that are identified...

Bucket, a rico bucket. a lot of states followed suit. georgia in 1980 enacted its own rico statute, but georgia went broader, jose. they added more predicate crimes to their rico statute. so more of those disparate acts by the various criminals could be swept into the prosecutive bucket. what sort of predicate acts do they have in georgia that they dont have under federal law? well, forgery, false statements, computer trespass, the types of things you see popping up in the indictment that was ju...

That he took. >> vaughn hillyard, great to have you, thank you so much. i want to play part of what fani willis said last night. she was talking about the 161 overt acts that make up a huge part of this indictment. take a listen. >> 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 under georgia law in isolation. but are alleged ...

The physical indictment document itself. but one thing to recognize is georgias rico statute does not include crimes under the election code, title 21. so things like conspiracy to commit election fraud or solicitation or violation of an oath of office or interference with elections. those and other crimes that are not listed in the rico statute could be included separately in an indictment. i think its also important to note that forgery is one of the predicate acts under rico, and so potential...

Some of his confederates amounted to a criminal enterprise, but as gwen makes clear, there are more whats called predicate acts, those crimes, that conduct that theyre engaing together. georgia law is more expansive. for instance, forgeries that were used on some of the fake electors or to your point, computer trespass, which means unlawful access to a computer and could easily encompass the conduct we heard about in coffee county where sensitive software was accessed. lots of different possibil...

For a conspiracy involving the election. >> we know donald trump leaned on secretary of state brad raffensperger to find the correct number of votes, to flip it. we know the prosecutor has evidence tieing the trump legal team to a breach of the election machines in a republican county. we know that there was a slate of fake electors that was submitted and not accepted. we know rudy giuliani went down there and met with legislators to talk about these wild and outlandish and disapproved claims ab...

That could lead to some of them flipping because of the mandatory minimum sentence. its a very big danger for donald trump. also allows proof of an overarching conspiracy with individual predicate acts, the underlying crimes that were part of the goal of overturning the election, of committing a coup. it can be very dramatic. it cannot be pardoned, except by a special committee within the state of georgia. even the governor does not have individual power to pardon such a crime. it has a lot of c...

So, the difference between georgia and the federal is, there doesnt have to be an enterprise. and, there also are many more crimes that the person can commit, and could be considered part of it. so just in a nacho, she has to prove that there was racketeering activity, and what does that mean under georgia? that means that the defendants, either committed, attempted to commit, or solicited someone to commit a crime, that is chargeable by indictment under georgia law. and, those crimes under geor...

The federal level. do you think this case is a good fit into. >> it is absolutely a good fit. you have predicate acts, meaning what -- let me back up a minute. rico basically turns a number of different crimes into one crime. it takes a pattern and turns it into the one crime of racketeering. so what you have here are a number of false statements, false statements to brad raffensperger, and the secretary of state, by donald trump and statements that donald trump made to the speaker of the house ...

As she talks about the predicate acts, heather approved, maybe this conspiracy, which i think we will see there as well, shes going to want to go into some detail. you might think about the requests at you like this. it is a little bit like the twine pulls and ties the package together. she can put it all in the wrapping paper, wrap it, instead, she lets her have a sort of a single gift if you will to give the jury. you know, there are some danger to having a detailed indictment. the feds are ge...