EXCLUSIVE – The attorney for one of the 19 defendants indicted alongside former President Trump says his client, Scott Hall, can now “get on with living his life.” Hall and his attorney, Jeff Weiner, have reached a plea deal with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office in Georgia.
A grand jury indicted Hall in August on charges stemming from alleged election interference in the state’s 2020 presidential election. Weiner, who spoke exclusively with Fox News after reaching the plea agreement Friday, said the issue for Hall was not the facts of the case, but his intent.
“I am convinced that he had no criminal intent,” Weiner said. “I am absolutely certain that he is a good man.”
Hall, a bail bondsman, traveled to Georgia’s rural Coffee County to investigate allegations of election fraud following President Biden’s narrow victory in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.
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According to Weiner, Hall “believed a lot of the things that Donald Trump and others in his camp were saying and so he got involved to find out for himself what was going on.”
“My client was a very curious patriotic American,” Weiner said. “He regrets that he got involved with all that.”
Under the plea deal, Hall will serve five years of probation, pay $5,000 in fines and perform 200 hours of community service.
After that, “the nightmare will be over and he can get on with living his life,” Weiner said.
In reaching the agreement, Weiner said he and his client considered the uncertainty of how long a trial would last.
“To live with an indictment like that, it affects your life. It affects your health. Now, it’s over,” Weiner said.
Hall pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with the performance of election duties. Those are misdemeanor charges, down from the seven felony charges he faced in the indictment.
Weiner revealed that the plea deal took…
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