'Serious exposure': Why Sidney Powell's plea deal is bad news for another Trump lawyer
Now that Trump-aligned lawyer Sidney Powell has taken a plea deal in the Georgia election racketeering trial — the second person to do so after bail bondsman Scott Hall — there's one person who finds himself in a massively difficult legal spot: Powell's fellow attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who has been scheduled to be tried with her and now will be tried alone.
MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang broke down what's facing him on "The ReidOut" Thursday evening.
"Katie, you were one of the people who helped to confirm this information about Kenneth Chesebro having been offered his own plea deal," said anchor Joy Reid. "Very interesting he was offered it first. He didn't take it. He would have had to plead guilty to a felony, but he would have been able to get his record expunged and pay a $10,000 fine. Talk about his risks now. Because he now is going to go to trial tomorrow, that trial starts tomorrow, it was supposed to be the two of them. Now it's just going to be him."
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"Yeah, so let's be clear," said Phang. "We don't know the timing of when these plea offers have been extended, meaning Sidney Powell could have gotten this plea offer before Kenneth Chesebro but opted not to take it until the trial. Why? Because as you noted, there have been a series of denials of these motions to dismiss that the judge in Fulton County has entered against Kenneth Chesebro, as well as Sidney Powell."
"I also want to remind everybody the following as well," Phang continued. "Kenneth Chesebro didn't want to be tried with Sidney Powell and vice versa. They tried to be separated from each other when they both filed a speedy demand."
"At this point, Kenneth Chesebro is going to go to trial by himself," added Phang. "Doesn't mean he can't plead out at literally the last minute, but he's going to go to trial by himself. If that's the case, then he's got serious exposure, because now, it will be the full weight of the State of Georgia, with [Fulton County prosecutor] Fani Willis, and the entirety of their 100-something witnesses against just Kenneth Chesebro. Now we're going to add another person to the witness list, Scott Hall, as well as Sidney Powell."
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