The judge presiding over the 2020 election RICO case against Donald Trump reversed himself on the issue of sealing the criminal case files of Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, and Ken Chesebro.

The Georgia judge presiding over the 2020 election RICO case against former President Donald Trump and co-defendants who have yet to plead guilty has reversed himself on the issue of sealing the criminal case dockets of attorneys Sidney Powell, Ken Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis, and bail bondsman Scott Hall.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee began his unsealing order by noting that Powell, Chesebro, Ellis, and Hall each invoked their first-time offender status under Georgia’s First Offender Act to immediately seal their dockets following guilty pleas to lesser charges that did not include a RICO offense.

  • jballsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    In case anyone else had heard the term “docket” all their life but never really knew what it meant, I looked it up for us.

    A docket is defined by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts as a “log containing the complete history of each case in the form of brief chronological entries summarizing the court proceedings.” Every case is assigned a unique docket number, which researchers can use to find information such as the names of the parties, dates of appearances before the court, and a brief summary of the claims or charges. A docket is also useful for identifying court filings—the underlying documents (pleadings, motions, briefs, etc.) filed in a case. Although dockets and court filings are not considered “case law” and do not have precedential value, the information contained in these resources can sometimes help researchers better understand why a court issued a particular decision or opinion.