In a column for MSNBC, ex-federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner claimed former Donald Trump lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell may have received sweetheart plea bargain deals from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, but they can expect special counsel Jack Smith to play hardball with them if he moves to indict them.
As of right now, the two disgraced lawyers are unindicted co-conspirators in Smith's Washington D.C. case against Donald Trump being heard by Judge Tanya Chutkan, but that could change after they made admissions of guilt about the 2020 election in a Georgia courtroom.
With that in mind, Kirschner wrote the two could shed a tremendous amount of light on attempts to subvert the 2020 presidential election by the former president and his close associates, and that he will likely demand more than Willis in return for leniency.
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"Neither Powell’s nor Chesebro’s plea deal ends the possibility of imprisonment," Kirschner wrote.
He continued, "As noted earlier, they’ll still face criminal exposure in the federal case. The Georgia prosecutors might have been willing to extend a probation-only plea deal to Powell and Chesebro. But I doubt the federal government will be quite so generous."
According to the former prosecutor, he is of the mind that they each should face some real jail time in light of their actions trying to subvert democracy.
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"There are compelling societal interests that militate in favor of a period of incarceration for crimes that were designed, in a very real and direct sense, to bring an end to our great American experiment," he lectured before adding, "Crimes like that deserve more than mere probation. Not if we’re serious about deterring Trump and other would-be dictators from trying it all over again."
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