Two defendants accused of participating in a fake elector scheme in Michigan following the 2020 election are asking for a judge to dismiss charges in response to comments made by the state attorney general.
“They legit believe that,” said Nessel, a Democrat who announced criminal charges in the fake elector scheme in July.
Kevin Kijewski, an attorney for the defendant Clifford Frost, said in a motion to dismiss filed Tuesday that Nessel’s comments are an “explicit and clear admission” that there wasn’t intent to defraud. Kijewski told The Associated Press that he expected the motion to be taken up at a previously scheduled Oct. 6 hearing.
Danny Wimmer, a spokesperson for Nessel’s office, said in response to a request for comment that the office “will respond to the motion in our filings with the Court.” The intent behind the defendants’ actions will be at the center of the case, said Tom Leonard, a former Michigan assistant attorney general He was also the Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general in 2018, losing to Nessel.
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