Georgia Rico case: John Eastman surrenders to authorities

Two radical accused of conspiring with ex-President Donald Trump successful the authorities of Georgia person turned themselves successful to look charges of predetermination interference.

John Eastman, 1 of 19 co-defendants named successful the Georgia indictment, faces 9 counts of racketeering and conspiracy.

Another suspect - Scott Hall, a Georgia bail bondsman - has besides surrendered to section officials.

Mr Trump is expected to surrender connected Thursday connected the 13 charges against him.

The Fulton County territory attorney's bureau past week charged the erstwhile president and 18 allies with attempting to overturn his electoral decision successful the closely-contested authorities successful 2020.

Prosecutors person acceptable a deadline of Friday noon section clip for each suspect to surrender and beryllium booked into the section Rice Street jail.

Prosecutors see Mr Eastman, 63, a cardinal fig successful the crippled to meddle with the 2020 predetermination results.

The California instrumentality prof represented the erstwhile president successful a suit trying to overturn predetermination results successful 4 states helium mislaid successful 2020.

In Georgia, helium is alleged to beryllium portion of a crippled to impulse authorities senators to disregard the predetermination results and name fake electors.

On Tuesday, helium was released connected a $100,000 (£78,500) enslaved statement aft being booked and spending a mates of hours wrong the jail.

In a statement, Mr Eastman claimed that the Georgia lawsuit "targets attorneys for their zealous advocacy connected behalf of their clients, thing attorneys are ethically bound to provide".

He promised to "vigorously contention each number of the indictment successful which I americium named, and besides each number successful which others are named".

Asked by reporters extracurricular the courthouse if helium inactive believes the 2020 predetermination was stolen, Mr Eastman responded: "Absolutely, nary question successful my mind".

The lawyer's post-election actions are presently the absorption of disciplinary proceedings by the State Bar of California and could spot him suffer his instrumentality licence there. Hearings acceptable for this week were delayed up of his surrender successful Fulton County.

Mr Eastman is besides referenced, but not named, successful a abstracted national indictment connected predetermination subversion charges filed this period by Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Earlier connected Tuesday, Mr Hall became the archetypal suspect successful the Georgia lawsuit to crook himself in.

The bail bondsman from Atlanta faces 7 charges related to his alleged engagement successful a voting systems breach successful Coffee County successful January 2021.

Having signed a $10,000 enslaved agreement, helium was released connected Tuesday aft spending astir an hr astatine the jail.

Other defendants, including alleged fake electors Shawn Still and David Shafer, person besides negotiated enslaved agreements done their lawyers.

The Georgia lawsuit is the latest successful a bid of transgression cases filed against Mr Trump.

Prosecutors successful Fulton County impeach him of scheming to subvert the volition of the state's electorate pursuing his constrictive nonaccomplishment determination to Democrat Joe Biden.

Mr Trump has agreed to a $200,000 enslaved arsenic good arsenic different merchandise conditions, specified arsenic being barred from utilizing societal media to straight oregon indirectly endanger alleged co-conspirators oregon imaginable witnesses.

In a Monday nighttime station connected his Truth Social platform, the Republican frontrunner for the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination reiterated his assertion that the lawsuit was "all astir ELECTION INTERFERENCE".

The ex-president besides faces 78 charges crossed 3 different transgression cases, including an probe into his alleged mishandling of classified documents.