Rudy Giuliani, a longtime ally and former lawyer of former President Trump, asked a Georgia judge on Friday to drop the charges against him in the Fulton County election interference case, citing several “defects” in the charge.
The former mayor of New York City was indicted along with the former president and 17 others by a Fulton County grand jury last month for their alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
However, Giuliani’s attorneys argued in a filing Friday that the 41-count indictment falls short on several grounds and that the charges against their client should be dismissed.
“The accused moves this Court to dismiss the indictment against him, because it is incomplete in form and substance, fails to give sufficient notice of what he must defend against trial, and the pleadings of said indictment are insufficient to will protect him from the double jeopardy of a separate prosecution,” they wrote in a new filing.
His lawyers charged that the indictment failed to separate criminal acts from legal acts, describing the 98-page document as a “conspiratorial bouillabaisse made up of alleged criminal acts, daily activities, and constitutionally protected speech.”
They also argued that the indictment did not clearly outline the “essential facts” that make up the charges against Giuliani and suggested that it put him at risk of “double jeopardy.”
Giuliani, along with 18 other defendants, pleaded not guilty earlier this month and waived his right to an in-person arraignment.
The Georgia indictment comes ahead of several other legal battles Giuliani has faced, including three defamation lawsuits from two voting machine companies and a pair of election workers he accused. who manipulated the ballots in the 2020 election.
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