'His cooperation is significant': Legal experts weigh in on Trump co-defendant's guilty plea

Donald Trump's criminal case for alleged election conspiracy in Georgia just got its first guilty plea, prompting legal experts to weigh in.

Onlookers found out on Friday that Scott Hall, who was charged alongside Trump in that case, would be pleading guilty to five misdemeanor counts.

Hall marks the first Trump co-defendant to do so, and lawyers have ideas about what that plea will ultimately mean for Trump and his allies.

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Former prosecutor Joyce Vance noted that some of the details hint at Hall's cooperation.

"A plea to 5 misdemeanors here signals that his cooperation is significant," Vance said. "Sidney Powell is one likely upstream defendant he could testify against ."

In a separate post, Vance said that, if Hall is cooperating, it's a bad sign for [Powell]."

Former Mueller investigation prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said that, unlike in federal court; "the plea and sentence happen all at once, and no public statement by the defendant on the record as to what he did."

"But he clearly may be a witness against Powell and others re the Coffey County election charges," the expert added.

Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman also looked at the angle involving Powell.

"Don’t want to get too far out front here, but if Hall can secure conviction of Powell, question becomes whose conviction can Powell secure?" Litman asked. "And two names that jump to mind: Jenna Ellis and Rudy Giuliani. Again, this for now is just wild speculation.'"

Georgia law professor Anthony Michael Kreis used a meme with an expletive to describe how Powell's attorneys are likely feeling.

"Let's turn to Sidney Powell's lawyers for comment," he wrote with the comment online.