Judge dismisses charges in Nevada fake electors case over venue question, attorney general to appeal
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A judge in Las Vegas dismissed an indictment Friday against six Republicans accused of submitting certificates to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential election, potentially removing Nevada from among four states with criminal charges pending against so-called fake electors.
A judge in Las Vegas dismissed an indictment Friday against six Republicans accused of submitting certificates to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential election, potentially removing Nevada from among four states with criminal charges pending against so-called fake electors. Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford stood for a moment after Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus ruled that Las Vegas was the wrong venue for the case and asserted he would take the case to the state Supreme Court. “The judge got it wrong, and we’ll be appealing immediately,” Ford, a Democrat, told reporters afterward. He declined additional comment. Defense attorneys bluntly declared the case dead, saying that to bring it now before another grand jury in another venue such as Nevada’s capital of Carson City would violate a three-year statute of limitations on filing charges that expired in December. “They’re done,” said Margaret McLetchie, attorney for Clark County Republican Party chairman Jesse Law, one of the defendants in the case. The judge called off a trial, which had been scheduled for January, for defendants that included state GOP chairman Michael McDonald; national party committee member Jim DeGraffenreid; national and Douglas County committee member Shawn Meehan; Storey County clerk Jim Hindle; and Eileen Rice, a party member from the Lake Tahoe area. Each was accused of offering a false instrument for filing and uttering a forged instrument – felonies that carry penalties of up to four or five years in prison.
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