August 30th 2023.
Harrison Floyd was the only one of nineteen defendants named in the Fulton County election fraud case to spend time in jail following the voluntary surrender deadline set forth by District Attorney Fani Willis. This decision was met with shock and outrage from Floyd's attorney, Chris Kachouroff, who believed that the decision to hold his client behind bars was a matter of "optics" rather than fairness.
Jeff DiSantis, a spokesperson for the district attorney's office, denied any mistreatment of Floyd for any reason, stating that he had the opportunity to work out a consent bond just like the other defendants, but chose not to do so until recently. It is unclear why Floyd arrived at the Fulton County jail with no attorney.
The other eighteen defendants named in the case, including former President Donald Trump, turned themselves in with a prearranged bond; however, Floyd arrived without any representation. District Attorney Fani Willis even offered Floyd a consent bond when he arrived at the jail, but he declined to talk to anyone without a lawyer.
Floyd was considered a flight risk by Judge Emily Richardson due to his arrest earlier this year in Maryland for allegedly charging at an FBI agent who attempted to serve him with a grand jury subpoena in Trump’s federal election interference case in Washington, D.C.
At his court appearance on Friday, August 25, Floyd represented himself and asked to be given a public defender due to not being able to afford the costs associated with a case of this magnitude. Fortunately, a donation site set up in his honor has allegedly raised $275,000 to help with his legal expenses.
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