SURRENDERING VIDEO: Former Trump lawyer, John Eastman, has surrendered to authorities and been booked into the Fulton County Jail KossyDerrickBlog KossyDerrickEnt

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

SURRENDERING VIDEO: Former Trump lawyer, John Eastman, has surrendered to authorities and been booked into the Fulton County Jail

SURRENDERING VIDEO: Former Trump lawyer, John Eastman, has surrendered to authorities and been booked into the Fulton County Jail. 

A judge on Monday set Eastman's bond at $100,000.

"I am here today to surrender to an indictment that should never have been brought," Eastman said in a statement posted to the website of one of his attorneys.

"It represents a crossing of the Rubicon for our country, implicating the fundamental First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances," Eastman said.

He accused Willis of targeting attorneys who merely performed "zealous advocacy on behalf of their clients," by challenging the election results "through lawful and appropriate means."

Trump's bond agreement: Trump agreed Monday to a $200,000 bond and other release conditions after his lawyers met with the Fulton County district attorney's office, according to court documents. Trump is explicitly barred in the bond order from using social media to target the co-defendants in the case, as well as any witnesses and the 30 unindicted co-conspirators.
The charges: Trump is accused in the indictment of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” that was part of a broad conspiracy to overturn his electoral defeat in the state. The former president faces 91 charges across four separate criminal cases at the same time he’s running for president in 2024.

Eastman is one of 19 co-defendants, including Trump, facing charges in the Georgia criminal case led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Eastman penned an infamous memo outlining the dubious legal theory that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to reject key electoral college votes while he presided over a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.

Eastman faces nine counts of crimes including racketeering, conspiracy to commit forgery and filing false documents.

Georgia state Sen. Shawn Still, who served as a fake elector in 2020 and was charged in the state's election subversion case, has reached a bond agreement with prosecutors. 

It is unclear when Still plans to surrender. The $10,000 bond agreement calls for Still to be released from jail on his signature alone, without putting up any cash or collateral. 

Still’s attorney, Thomas Bever, arrived at the Fulton County court complex Tuesday morning to work through a bond agreement for his client. The agreement was posted Tuesday on the court docket, and was signed by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the historic Atlanta-based case. 
Most of the language in the agreement is similar to the deals struck for other defendants, including boilerplate rules that Still can’t break the law or discuss the case with witnesses. 


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