Legal Scholar Sees Flaws in Georgia Indictment, Efforts to Humiliate Trump

The criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, comes with the implication that he'll be booked in like a common criminal, but the arrest and the trial itself might not play out the way Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis planned.
Legal Scholar Sees Flaws in Georgia Indictment, Efforts to Humiliate Trump
(Left) Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis at the Atlanta Police headquarters in Atlanta on May 3, 2023; (Right) Former President Donald Trump prepares to deliver remarks in Las Vegas on July 8, 2023. Megan Varner, Mario Tama/Getty Images
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The criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, comes with the implication that he'll be booked in like a common criminal, but the arrest and the trial itself might not play out the way Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis planned.

After unveiling a sweeping 98-page indictment against President Trump and 18 other co-defendants, Ms. Willis set an Aug. 25 deadline for the president and the other defendants to turn themselves in to the Fulton County Jail for booking. Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat has also said he would take the former president’s mugshot as part of the process, a move not seen in the three prior criminal indictments against the former president.
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