The Georgia court docket that denounced as “fictitious” an indictment of former President Donald Trump posted Monday put forth a brand new account Tuesday.
The Fulton County Clerk’s Office stated the prosecutor was conducting a “trial run” of a “sample working document” that resulted within the supposed “fictitious” indictment being posted hours earlier than the grand jury really voted Monday to indict Mr. Trump and 18 others.
That Monday doc listed the identical fees — racketeering, obstruction of justice, solicitation of lies and false paperwork, and so on. — that had been within the indictment launched late Monday night time.
That several-hour hole, throughout which witnesses had been referred to as, induced some Trump supporters to name the grand jury vote a pre-ordained conclusion.
But on Tuesday, the doc blasted as “fictitious” was described as an early draft in a press release from the Clerk’s Office, whereas the phrase “fictitious” was retained.
“In anticipation of issues that arise with entering a potentially large indictment, [clerk Che] Alexander used charges that pre-exist in Odyssey to test the system and conduct a trial run,” the Office stated in a press release reported by Fox News, referring to digital submitting techniques by identify.
“Unfortunately, the sample working document led to the docketing of what appeared to be an indictment, but which was, in fact, only a fictitious docket sheet.”
The Office provided no rationalization for why the precise fees would match these in a trial-run doc if the latter had been merely a random check.
But it defined that the doc was “fictitious” as a result of it hadn’t been made official.
“Because the media has access to documents before they are published, and while it may have appeared that something official had occurred because the document bore a case number and filing date, it did not include a signed ‘true’ or ‘no’ bill nor an official stamp with Clerk Alexander’s name, thereby making the document unofficial and a test sample only.”
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