Jury to hear Georgia election workers' case against Rudy Giuliani [View all]
Source: The Hill
12/04/23 9:54 AM ET
A case to determine how much ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani owes two Georgia poll workers for falsely claiming they helped steal the election from former President Trump will be heard and decided by a jury, a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled late Sunday.
In a sharply worded ruling, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell denied Giuliani’s request to hold a bench trial instead of a jury trial, meaning the judge would have decided the case instead of a jury. She chided him for the “significantly tardy” motion, having set an October deadline for all pretrial motions.
“Perhaps Giuliani’s submission is titled a ‘Trial Brief,’ rather than a motion seeking to convert the scheduled jury trial to a hearing, in a fairly blatant effort to avoid being called out for filing an untimely pretrial motion,” Howell wrote in a footnote.
In the wake of the 2020 election, Giuliani made a series of false statements about the work Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss conducted at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, where ballots were counted. He and other Trump allies baselessly claimed the election workers — a mother-daughter duo — committed election fraud by processing “suitcases” of illicit ballots.
Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4340773-jury-to-hear-georgia-election-workers-case-against-rudy-giuliani/
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