Overview
- Justice of the Peace Derek Dreiling found slight evidence supported the forgery counts and ordered all six defendants bound over.
- Prosecutors played a subpoenaed video of the Dec. 14, 2020 signing and highlighted that the certificates were mailed to a federal judge, the secretary of state, the vice president and the National Archives to show intent to defraud.
- Defense attorneys argued the documents were the Nevada GOP’s own slate to preserve legal challenges and lacked official seals or signatures that would give them effect.
- The attorney general refiled the case in Carson City after a Clark County judge dismissed the initial prosecution for improper venue; that dismissal remains on appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court.
- Prosecutors chose not to call subpoenaed Trump-campaign lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, drawing objections from the defense, and the judge described his decision as the hardest of his career.