Overview
- Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee dismissed the indictment in full shortly after Peter Skandalakis filed to abandon the case.
- Skandalakis cited presidential immunity, Supremacy Clause and jurisdiction issues, evidentiary limits, and multi‑year delay that could push any trial to 2029 or beyond.
- He appointed himself to lead the matter after multiple prosecutors declined, taking over only after a Georgia appeals court disqualified Fani Willis for an appearance of impropriety.
- The decision ends the Georgia prosecution that remained after Special Counsel Jack Smith discontinued federal cases following the president’s reelection.
- Several defendants had previously entered plea deals, but Skandalakis rejected severing and trying others without the president as impractical and too costly, as Trump’s lawyer hailed the dismissal.