"A plea to misdemeanor charges signals that prosecutors see high value in her testimony [Powell}

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I trust both of these women!! --educated, smart with great past experiences in the law.
But I have to say the Time goes slow and I get impatient.

A plea to misdemeanor charges signals that prosecutors see high value in her testimony. Trump should be nervous. & it's likely she'll be a witness in the fed'l case too. Chesebro next?

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1. Joyce Vance predicted that Sidney Powell would flip

This makes me smile

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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fulton-county-trial-trump-guilty-plea-deals-rcna120920

One of the questions that should be keeping former President Donald Trump up at night is who among his co-defendants in Georgia will flip and testify against him. So far, only one of Trump’s 18 co-defendants has pled guilty: politically well-connected Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall, whose brother-in-law was Trump’s deputy campaign manager in 2016. To date, Hall is the only Trump co-defendant whose plea deal and cooperation agreement with prosecutors is public. (They have agreed to dismiss some of the charges and recommend a reduced sentence of five years’ probation). But there could be others coming.

Reporting from earlier in October confirms that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis offered cooperation agreements to an unspecified number of other co-defendants in the case, all of whom will have to decide whether a deal like the one Hall received is a better option than going to trial. There are only so many sweetheart deals to go around; prosecutors' need for witnesses on any given point is limited. And typically, those defendants who are “first in” get the best deals.

With their trial slated to begin on Oct. 23, former Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro face this decision with some urgency. One of the prosecutors on Willis’ team told Judge Scott McAfee that the prosecution was potentially willing to offer deals to both Powell and Chesebro. Hall's deal is very good, meaning he must be giving prosecutors something very good in return. For example, he may have to testify against a co-defendant, and Powell is the most likely target — they were both charged in connection with the alleged plot to access voting machines in Coffee County, Georgia, on Jan. 7, 2021. Does Powell want to risk a sentence of five to 20 years in a Georgia state prison? Or might she decide it’s time to cut her losses and testify to what she knows about Trump?

Prosecutors usually start their dealmaking with the least culpable participants in a conspiracy. They flip these smaller fish in exchange for help making a case against the person above them, until they reach the person or people at the top. The highest value co-defendants can provide prosecutors with unique access to the people in charge of a criminal conspiracy. Powell and Chesebro were literally in the proverbial room(s) where it happened. Powell, for instance, attended the contentious Dec. 18, 2020 Oval Office meeting when it was suggested she be appointed a special prosecutor to investigate election fraud. Chesebro authored the original plan for the fake elector scheme. Their testimony, if they were willing to be truthful and proved credible, could be a real asset for prosecutors.

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2. To paraphrase our President

I think this is a BFD.

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3. I wonder if Trump understands these people are obligated to tell the truth, under penalty of

perjury, or is the concept of truth completely alien to him? Will he be ranting how the evil Feds and courts have corrupted his entourage to the point they will cooperate and testify? Does he think their testimony will be a hoax?