Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, two people charged in Georgia with racketeering and other crimes alongside former President Donald Trump, have accepted plea deals that let them avoid the jail time their original charges could have imposed. In exchange, they each agreed to provide testimony in the case.
The Conversation U.S. asked Cynthia Alkon, a law professor at Texas A&M University School of Law who studies plea bargaining, to explain what these legal agreements are and how they work.
