A new Georgia reimbursement bill will allow President Donald Trump and his co-defendants to seek compensation for legal fees incurred in their Fulton County case because District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified from prosecuting them.
The state’s Senate unanimously passed the legislation, Senate Bill 244, by a vote of 55 to 0 on Thursday, paving the way for defendants in Georgia to recover attorney-related expenses and other court costs in proceedings where the DA is kicked off a criminal case due to prosecutorial misconduct.
Also under S.B. 244, if a judge dismisses an indictment altogether, a defendant could receive reimbursement for the case’s entirety. The county in which the charges were originally brought would cover the compensation.
As for Trump, records show he has paid his top attorneys about $2.7 million, and the Georgia GOP spent at least $2 million on the legal defense of other Trump allies, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Trump’s lead defense lawyer, Steve Sadow, called S.B. 244 “a good start.” […]
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