A Nevada judge on Friday rejected a case against six fake voters which declared the former president donald trump won the 2020 presidential election.
Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus ruled from the bench that the state had filed the case in the wrong jurisdiction, the state attorney general’s office confirmed to NBC News.
A spokesperson for the office said the state’s top prosecutor “will immediately appeal.”
The judge’s decision comes after a grand jury in December indicted six republicans as part of a probe in the 2020 presidential election on two felony counts that included offering a false instrument to present and issuing a forged instrument.
Among those charged were Nevada State Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald and vice chairman and national committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid, that have appeared previously before a criminal grand jury investigating the Capitol riot.
Attorneys for McDonald and Douglas County Republican Party board member Eileen Rice told NBC News they believed the judge made the correct decision since the alleged acts had not occurred in Clark County, they said.
“We are happy that our clients, you know, their charges were dismissed and we are confident that the Nevada Supreme Court will uphold the dismissal,” said attorneys Monti Levy and Richard Wright.
Wright argued in the motion on behalf of the defendants Friday that Las Vegas was the wrong location for the case.
Fake voter lists for the former president were also organized and charges were filed in other swing states such as Michigan It is Georgia.
Earlier this month, three Trump allies were charged in Wisconsin, in fake voter scam to keep Trump in office, including campaign official Mike Roman and lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and James Troupis.
A state grand jury in Arizona also indicted former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and other Trump aides in April, along with a series of fake voters, in connection with an investigation into alleged efforts by the former president and his allies to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory that state in 2020.
Trump’s team also helped prepare fake certificates in New Mexico and Pennsylvania, but the fake voters in those states were not charged. False voters in both states had added language stipulating that their certificates would be presented if they were subsequently recognized as duly elected and qualified voters.
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