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Hugo Lowell

Georgia prosecutors seek protective order after leak of videos in Trump case

Jenna Ellis, left, and Sidney Powell, former Trump lawyers who have agreed plea deals to avoid being tried as racketeering co-defendants.
Jenna Ellis, left, and Sidney Powell, former Trump lawyers who have agreed plea deals to avoid being tried as racketeering co-defendants. Photograph: Tom Williams/Getty Images

Fulton county prosecutors have asked the judge overseeing the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump and his co-defendants in Georgia to immediately impose an “emergency” protective order over the discovery materials to prevent potential future leaks of evidence.

The request came after several media outlets published details of videotaped statements that former Trump lawyers Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro gave as part of plea deals to avoid being tried as racketeering co-defendants with the former president.

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