Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis has pleaded guilty for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. That's the fourth plea deal in the Georgia case. Only 15 more to go.
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None of these people have been required to give up their law licenses.
They get sweets for giving up early, with the intention of tempting others.
Oddly enough, Yehouda has it right. In a big, multi-defendant case, the first to plead out typically get really good deals.
In theory, pleading out to these crimes should cause their state bar associations(or the state Supreme Court, depending on the state) to disbar them but, in practice, it's actually very unusual for a lawyer to be disbarred. Rudi and John Eastman are the Trump lawyers in the most danger but most likely they won't actually be disbarred but will receive some kind of "admonishment" (which, I believe, has already happened to Ellis) but will not suffer any real punishment.
Or citizenship, which is what they'd deserve after putting profit or party before democracy. A pox on the lot of them.
Generally speaking, lawyers don't get disbarred by criminal courts. Their respective bar associations, Superior Courts, or whichever agency is responsible for such things (it varies from state to state) are probably taking a very hard look at the fitness to practice of the lawyers involved. Disbarment may follow.
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust (Yeah!)
I think the prospect of being on probation for 5 years w/o having to serve any time as opposed to spending a few hundred thousand dollars (at least) on lawyers' fees going to trial is weighing heavily on these folks.
Of course, the only person who won't get an offer is Trump.
I don't think Willis wants to use Trump's testimony against the other defendants. As a rule, jurors don't like to see the head of a criminal operation get a deal to testify against people lower down in the organization. The bigger problem, though, is that Trump seems incapable of telling the truth--even when it is in his best interest to do so. If Willis put Trump on the stand as a prosecution witness, there is a good chance that she would be required to inform the Court and the jury that Trump lied under oath.
I expect that Willis would still agree to a plea deal with a reduced sentence, but the reduction in sentence would be to save the County the time, expense, and uncertainty of a trial, and to get a public admission of guilt. That's not going to happen because Trump couldn't even admit that his inauguration crowd was smaller than Obama's. I think Trump is quite incapable of publicly admitting that he lost the 2020 election, much less that he tried to illegally overturn that loss.