LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Nevada Supreme Court docket will hear the attraction within the “fake elector” prison case on Aug. 6.
Six Republicans had been charged after signing paperwork that falsely claimed President Donald Trump received the 2020 election. The group then mailed their certificates to Washington, D.C.
They had been indicted in 2023 by a Clark County grand jury. The attraction got here after Clark County District Court docket Choose Mary Kay Holthus dismissed the case final summer season, citing an improper venue.
Nevada Republican Celebration Chairman Michael McDonald, Jim DeGraffenreid, Durward James Hindle III, Jesse Regulation, Shawn Meehan and Eileen Rice had been indicted on fees of providing a false instrument for submitting and uttering a solid instrument, felonies that carry penalties of as much as 4 or 5 years in jail.
Trump misplaced to President Joe Biden in Nevada by greater than 33,000 votes in 2020.
The district court docket concluded that the venue was not correct in Clark County as a result of the alleged offenses came about in Carson Metropolis and Douglas County. The state argues that no matter whether or not venue was correct in Carson Metropolis or Douglas County, it was additionally correct in Clark County.
After Holthus dismissed the case, the Nevada Legal professional Basic’s Workplace appealed the choice and refiled the case in Carson Metropolis.
In June Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo vetoed laws geared toward punishing “fake electors” for the second session in a row.
