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It is. >> yeah. >> yes because they have to prove the existence of the enterprise, and they'll have to prove some of the predicate acts to give the scope of the actions that happen. so they'll be on the lookout for all of that, what proof they put forward for that. obviously if chesboro goes alone, they'll 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 prove the existence of the enterprise and its overall mission will be the same for all trials. so it...

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. it's good to have you back. you and i were together last weekend before this indictment was unsealed late monday night. we've now had some time to look at some pretty bad hot takes, i think, on this indictment. i wanted to...

>> 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. what's 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 themselves in isolation, perfectly lawful. important context of a criminal enterprise or a criminal co...

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 that's 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 tell the whole story with even those acts and little bits of information that helped build upon some o...

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 under georgia law in isolation, but are alleged to be acts taken in furtherance of the conspiracy. >>...