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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well the article does say

"A judge agreed that she will serve about six years of probation, have to pay $2,700 in restitution and have to testify truthfully against her co-defendants."

So yes

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

$2700 for a lawyer lol, these numbers are so random

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah but she was Trump's lawyer so I assume she is broke and unemployable.

/S sort of

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

35% of the county would totally hire her.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, not now, she's turned on the God-Emperor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This. I think her law career is over.
I can't imagine what job she'd do now. Or maybe I am wrong and there are still people who'd hire her.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I'd imagine this would probably put her on the chopping block for disbarment

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Can we pay her to keep her clothes on

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Cool man. You finally made a comment that made me conjure an image that was so gross that I had to cleanse my palate by reading something more wholesome. I chose your username.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't see them wanting her if she turned on Trump. MAGA people will spit after they say her name to get the taste out of their mouth now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

35% of the county would totally hire her.

lol @ thinking the average MAGA chud can afford to hire a lawyer. Also, you forgot the R in country.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

On NPR, they state that the $2700 covers the cost of replacing election equipment.

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1207076719/sidney-powell-georgia-guilty-plea

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh they just expected the truth later from a trump toady for an immediate legal benefit. So wise.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Part of her deal was a written statement describing what she will testify to. They don't give this kind of deal unless the subject has already provided sufficient useful information and sworn to its truthfulness. She's bound to her statement now and, if she retracts later, I'm sure they can both pull back the plea deal and charge her with perjury.

These prosecutors aren't stupid nor is this their first plea deal. They've already got the goods.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh they will absolutely bring the hammer down if she doesn't do and say everything by the book from this point forward, that's the point of a plea deal. It gets the defendant out of (most of the) trouble, but it locks them in to testifying fully and truthfully about the case from then on. If the prosecutor/judge thinks they aren't holding up that promise, the deal is taken away. You really do have to go full state's evidence if you take a deal like this, and they are not playing around with the threat of piling all those felony charges - and more - right back on you if you don't sing just the way the DOJ wants you to.