Judge Issues Protective Order After Trump Codefendants Videos Leaked

Published on November 16, 2023

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issued a protective order on Thursday that would keep “sensitive” materials in the high-profile racketeering case against former President Donald Trump under seal, after video statements of four defendants who took guilty pleas were leaked to the media. “Allowing parties the unfettered ability to share pretrial materials with the public undermines the ‘smooth functioning of the discovery process,'” Judge McAfee wrote in the order issued a day after the court held an emergency hearing with all parties. He explained that the order was in the interest of preventing additional delay in all parties accessing discovery in the case, noting that state prosecutors had wanted to limit viewing of video proffers after the leaks....

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