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He said about his unfounded allegation, “He cheated.” He added, “Why isn’t he being prosecuted? The Democrats only know how to cheat. America isn’t going to take it much longer!”
A 30-year-old who says she didn’t vote in the 2020 election tossedthe Georgia criminal investigation of Donald Trump into a media turmoil. Emily Kohrs was chosen as the foreperson of the 23-person special purpose grand jury empaneled in Atlanta by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
The Juror has been criticized
Her name was revealed by the Associated Press, which kicked off something of a media tour where Kohrs appeared to bask in the limelight talking about the jury’s investigation of Trump’s efforts to overthrow the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
It was noted that Kohrs declined. However, a question raised that whether the special grand jury, in its still-secret report, recommended criminal charges against Trump himself.
Still, when asked by CNN how many people were recommended for indictments, she made a series of facial expressions that left little in doubt.
“It’s not a short list,” Kohrs said.
Trump’s lawyers bounced back. His attorney Drew Findling told the New York Times that Kohrs had “poisoned” a potential jury pool with her comments. Jennifer Little, another one of his lawyers, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that she broke the judge’s rules by talking about the special grand jury’s deliberations.
“This type of carnival, clown-like atmosphere that was portrayed over the course of the last 36 hours takes away from the complete sanctity and the integrity and, for that matter, the reliability” of the investigation, Findling told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Legal experts who spoke to Insider, however, said Willis had little to worry about.
Motions to quash are “uphill battles,” according to Ronald L. Carlson, a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law.
“She did not give any names of defendants, which would’ve been bad. And she did not even mention specific charges that the special purpose grand jury may have referenced in their report as being involved with particular cases,” Carlson told Insider. “So my thought is, future prosecutions have not been jeopardized by this.”
Under Georgia law, grand jurors have a lot of leeway in terms of what they’re allowed to talk about, according to Norm Eisen, a legal ethics expert and co-author of a Brookings Institution analysis on Trump’s legal risks.
Kohrs kept a copy of the presiding judge’s instructions in front of her during her interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and in other media appearances she noted she was steering clear of details the judge didn’t disclose himself.
“Ms. Kohrs has been very openly trying to operate within the parameters that the judge apparently gave her on what is and is not allowed, and so far I don’t think she’s exceeded them,” Eisen told Insider. “Even if she had, they would also need to be prejudicial to Trump and other defendants and they haven’t been. There is nothing she has done that compromises their ability to get a fair trial.”
