HomeCrimeHow Trump lawyer guilty pleas impact Jack Smith Jan. 6 case

How Trump lawyer guilty pleas impact Jack Smith Jan. 6 case

Ken Chesebro, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell

Ken Chesebro, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell (Fulton County Jail mug shots)

Among a flurry of Wednesday filings from special counsel Jack Smith in Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 federal prosecution was one highlighting the recent attorney guilty pleas in the Georgia RICO case and how those pro-Trump lawyers’ admissions may torpedo the former president’s floated advice-of-counsel defense.

The relatively brief 7-page filing asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan not to allow Trump to keep dragging his feet on committing, one way or another, to the advice-of-counsel defense strategy by way of a formal notice of intent. Jack Smith asserted that to permit that non-committal beyond a December deadline would be to permit undue “disruption and delay in advance of and during trial,” potentially “derail[ing] the Court’s pretrial and trial schedule.”

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