Testimony of Prosecution Witness May Have Helped the Defense in the Latest Michigan GOP Electors’ Hearing

Though a preliminary examination is a prosecutor’s opportunity to convince a judge that a crime was committed and that the accused party committed said crime, things may not have gone entirely according to plan for Assistant Attorney General LaDonna Logan. The preliminary exam for six Michigan Republican electors charged with election forgery was conducted on Dec. 13 and 14 in a tiny courtroom presided over by Lansing District Court Judge Kristen Simmons, a Democrat. The cramped courtroom was filled on both days by about 30 people, including six defendants and their lawyers, five representatives from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office, several reporters, the usual court personnel, and others....