Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney for US President Donald Trump, gestures after media announced that US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden won the 2020 US Presidential election, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA , November 7, 2020. Photo by Eduardo Munoz/REUTERS
ATLANTA (AP) — Rudy Giuliani on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges in Georgia alleging that he, along with former President Donald Trump and others, attempted to illegally overturn the results of the state’s 2020 election.
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By filing his plea of not guilty in court, the former New York City mayor and Trump attorney also waived his right to appear at an impeachment hearing scheduled for Sept. 6. He joins the former president and several others in skipping a trip to Atlanta to appear before a judge in a packed courtroom with the news camera rolling.
Trump and Giuliani are among 19 people charged in a lengthy 41-count indictment. It details a wide-ranging conspiracy aimed at thwarting the will of Georgia voters, who had chosen Democrat Joe Biden over the Republican incumbent.
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who brought the case under Georgia’s anticrime law, said she wanted to try all 19 defendants together. But since the indictment on August 14, legal wrangling has already begun in a number of court filings.
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney for US President Donald Trump, gestures after media announced that US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden won the 2020 US Presidential election, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA , November 7, 2020. Photo by Eduardo Munoz/REUTERS
