‘Kraken’ lawyer Sidney Powell claims it would be ‘devastating’ if she can’t face Georgia RICO trial alone for ‘three days at most’ – By Matt Naham (Law and Crime) / Aug 31, 2023
“Kraken” lawyer Sidney Powell, a known former member of Donald Trump’s “elite strike force” legal team to overturn the 2020 election, has motioned to sever her case from the 18 other Georgia racketeering (RICO) defendants, claiming she has “no substantive connection” with them.
Touting 45 years of lawyering “in the highest traditions of the Bar” despite facing sanctions and threats to strip her law license for doing the opposite in her failed “Kraken” cases, Powell asserted that it was a media-created falsehood that she represented Trump or the Trump campaign.
“She had no engagement agreement with either. She appears on no pleadings for Trump or the Campaign. She appeared in no courtrooms or hearings for Trump or the Campaign. She had no contact with most of her purported conspirators and rarely agreed with those she knew or spoke with,” said the motion filed by her lawyer Brian Rafferty. “It cannot be disputed that Ms. Powell went her own way following the election, and she never reached an agreement on a course of action with any indicted or unindicted coconspirator—and certainly not any illegal course of action.”
