A Harvard Law Grad Known as ‘The Cheese’ Serves Up an Ingenious Defense for Trump in Georgia

One of the former president’s lawyers moves to quash charges on the basis of a fine-grained textual reading, but could it be too clever by half?

AP/Evan Vucci, file
President Trump at Washington, January 6, 2021. AP/Evan Vucci, file

The motion in state court by one of President Trump’s attorneys, Kenneth Chesebro, to quash two of the charges against him handed up in Georgia could provide a preview of the former president’s strategy to avoid a sentence to be served at Fulton County Jail.

While Messrs. Trump and Chesebro are both charged with counts other than the two that the latter seeks to quash, they are jointly accused of perpetrating  “conspiracy to commit the offense of false statements and writings.” A victory for Mr. Chesebro could make Mr. Trump’s case considerably easier.  

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