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'Fake electors' case dismissed by Southern Nevada judge due to charges not being filed in the North
A Clark County District Judge dismissed the case against six “fake electors” who signed documentation claiming that former President Trump won Nevada in 2020. President Joe Biden won Nevada with over 33,000 votes in the 2020 election.
According to Clark County district Judge Mary Kay Holthus, prosecutors with the Nevada Attorney General’s office filed the case in the wrong venue by applying it to Southern Nevada, when it should have been brought to Northern Nevada.
She called off the trail which was scheduled in January due to the perceived error.
The electors charged were Michael McDonald, Jesse Law, Jim DeGraffenreid, Durward James Hindle III, Shawn Meehan and Eileen Rice. McDonald is the Republican party chair, Law is the Clark County Republican party chair, and Hindle is the state party vice chair.
Each faced two felony charges: offering a false instrument for filing and uttering a forged document, which each carried punishments of up to five years in prison.
While a grand jury in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County indicted the group, Holthus deemed the venue inappropriate as, she said, the trial should have occurred in a Northern Nevada court closer to where the documents were signed and the alleged crimes occurred.
Electors in several states sent in false documents, assuming former Vice President Mike Pence would certify them. When he did not on Jan. 6, 2021, protestors stormed the capitol. Three other groups of “fake electors” from Arizona, Michigan and Georgia are also facing criminal charges.
Defense attorneys have said that the case is dead due to statute of limitations; the criminal charges carry a three-year limit, which expired in December. It is unlikely the state will be able to bring back the charges to another court due to the limitations.