Three years after the 2020 election, a lawyer indicted in Georgia alongside former President Trump will be the first of 19 co-defendants to face trial for conspiring to disrupt the transfer of power.
Jury selection begins this week for Kenneth Chesebro, an ally of the former president who was charged in a sprawling racketeering case brought by prosecutors in Fulton County.
Another former lawyer for Trump, Sidney Powell, had also been slated for trial next week. On Thursday, she pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with performance of election duties, in exchange for her truthful testimony.
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